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	Cloud Nine (play) Summary
		Although it was obvious from her early radio play The Ants (1962) that Caryl Churchill could write good dialogue, she had difficulty translating that talent to a stage where she would be noticed.
		Cloud 9 is a 1979 play by Caryl Churchill.
		It is an issue packed play dealing with issues like feminism, gender roles, social roles, race, time, etc. For example, the first act takes place in 1880 in Africa, and the young boy is played by a woman, the mo...
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	Cloud Nine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase "on cloud nine" or "cloud number nine" meaning happy, euphoric or 'high'.
		Cloud Nine (play) a play by Caryl Churchill.
		Cloud Nine (starship) (television), a luxury liner on the television show Battlestar Galactica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cloud_Nine (175 words)

	Plays411: Cloud Nine
		This literate play is brimming with crisp wit and rueful irony, and it's superbly served in director Harry Mastrogeorge’s bracingly cerebral rendition.
		Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill's farce of Western civilization, of social conditioning, class, race and gender roles, is set to open on May 2nd at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre.
		Cloud Nine, is a contemporary classic that explores race and gender issues in a darkly comic way, time warping between Victorian-era Africa and swinging 1980's London.
	www.plays411.com /plays/c9/reviews.html (1199 words)

	Cloud9paper
		Betty, Clive's wife, is played by a man because she wants to be what men want her to be, and, in the same way, Joshua, the fl servant, is played by a white man because he wants to be what whites want him to be.
		Cloud Nine, like much of Churchill's work, applies and transcends its particular devices toward a statement of metaphysical concerns that is superior, through its exploitation of mode in combination with subject, to more conventional treatments of these themes.
		The presence of sexual artifice in Cloud Nine is primarily metaphoric, and cooperates with theatrical metaphors to reveal deeper conceits in the social fabric that are not at all limited to postures based on sex or political circumstance.
	www.smcm.edu /Users/jrklein/cloud9paper.htm (4090 words)

	Double Helix Theatre Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Cloud Nine is a difficult play for any group of actors, but the Double Helix's cast has met the challenges of Ms.
		Churchill specifies in her script that Joshua should be played by a white actor, because all of the characters in the first act are reflections of what Clive, the patriarchal white male, sees in them.
		Many plays from the 1970's, like much of Sam Shepard's work, seem dated when presented today simply because our sensibilities in 2002 are not the same as they were twenty-five years ago.
	www.doublehelixtheatre.org /show_cloud_nine.cfm (586 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Theater - Cloud Nine
		When "Cloud Nine" premiered in 1980, its satiric target was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her conservative reinvention of the British Empire.
		The first half of the play, set in 1880, is a broad lampoon of the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
		In fact, the brutal husband is having an affair, the effeminate son likes to play with dolls, the wife is flirting with an explorer who has a thing for boys, and the governess is a lesbian.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2002/50138_20021004.asp (557 words)

	School of Theatre experiences 'Cloud Nine'
		According to the Oxford dictionary, the term "cloud nine" means a state of extreme happiness.
		Cloud Nine is a comedy that focuses on issues of class, sex and race set in colonial Africa in the glory days of Queen Victoria.
		Carpenter said she plays the character Maude in the first act, and then changes to playing Lynn in the second act.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2006/11/11-16-06tdc/11-16-06darts-01.asp (861 words)

	Cloud Nine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9 may have been more shocking and taboo-shattering when it first opened twenty years ago, but its starkly and wittily presented insights into human nature and societal hypocrisies are as resonant as ever.
		In the first act, set in 19th century colonial Africa, actors playing across gender and racial lines portrayed a set of characters most of whose true emotional and/or sexual yearnings were mercilessly stifled by the mores of a brutal yet superficially civilized society.
		Nicole Golden, playing the grown-up Victoria -- baby daughter of Betty back in act one, and played by a rag doll therein -- conveyed the many layers of a modern woman struggling to find happiness in a world where any choice is supposedly acceptable.
	www.oobr.com /top/volSeven/thirtyone/cloud9.htm (589 words)

	FABULOUS REVIEW: CLOUD NINE by Drama Box
		Directed by Kok Heng Leun and co-translated by Quah Sy Ren, CLOUD NINE is Dramabox's Mandarin adaptation of feminist playwright Caryl Churchill's audacious assault on gender, racial discrimination and social oppression.
		As Churchill's plays always have been, the original script of CLOUD NINE is an extremely challenging feat, not only in terms of reader study but also of theatre performance in practice.
		Though written 24 years ago, the play is still refreshingly relevant with themes that question the conventional role of the "domineering-husband" and "passive-wife", even in a gay relationship, as well-represented by the tumultuous love between Gerry and Yongqing respectively.
	inkpot.com /theatre/03reviews/03revclounine2.html (1294 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Cloud Nine
		Cloud Nine (1979) was Caryl Churchill’s fourth major full-length stage play to be produced, and has proved to be one of her most durable works, with a number of revivals in the 1990s and 2000s.
		In Cloud Nine, the contrast between the farcical mode of Act 1 and the realism of Act 2, the cross-gender, cross-race casting, and the mismatch between the chronological timeshift and the ageing of the characters between Acts 1 and 2 are all refreshing formal innovations.
		Famously, the title of the play came from a middle-aged and reserved hall caretaker who, encouraged by the discussions going on around her, said of her own first experience of orgasm, which had occurred in middle-age, “It was like being on cloud nine.” (2)
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14736 (612 words)

	Theater \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The idea behind Cloud Nine is that even as we try to chart new and more equitable social, economic, racial, and sexual territory, we’re influenced by a patriarchal, imperialist history that dates back to just closing your eyes and thinking of England while going about your procreative business.
		Wife Betty (played by a man) ping-pongs between spousal duty and attraction to family friend and macho explorer Harry Bagley while quite ignoring the plaintive lesbian advances of her children’s governess.
		Victoria (played by a rag doll in act one) is torn between her accommodating if angry husband, Martin, and Lin, a lesbian divorcée she meets at the park where son Tommy plays with Lin’s daughter Cathy (played by six-foot Timothy Crowe in pigtails and Ritalin overdrive).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/02458863.htm (800 words)

	'Cloud Nine' tackles sexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine," playing at USC's Scene Dock Theater this weekend, is a provocative and hilarious examination of the interrelation between power, knowledge and sex.
		The first act of "Cloud Nine" is an outrageous lampoon of what is easiest to lampoon in terms of sexual repression: British Victorian society.
		The author's potent catch is to have the wife of the father played by a man (David Neiman), the son by a woman (Ruthie Pyles) and the African servant (Pourvasei) by a white man.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V135/N31/05-cloud.31d.html (631 words)

	Previous Columns/Posted 03/06/98
		Another glitch in the "cumulonimbus" (love that word) theory is that "cloud nine" gained currency as a popular idiom among jazz musicians and the Beat Generation, groups not ordinarily noted for their embrace of meteorological terminology.
		My best guess is that "on cloud nine" is simply a "cool" (by the standards of the 1950's) metaphor for the "floating," transcendent state induced by good jazz and perhaps a "stimulant" or two.
		Play along for a minute, OK? Just try to imagine how horribly unfair it would be if there really were such things as un-level playing fields, and your team were looking uphill at the Dallas Cowboys.
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	The Daily Texan
		Cloud Nine possesses a refreshing imagination and sense of humor; it's the slutty cousin of the feminist mentality.
		To see men playing women, white men playing fl men and adult women playing adolescent boys reinforces the confusion of the characters; they are who other people want them to be, blatantly ignoring Phil Collins' plea to let their true colors shine through.
		Cloud Nine is a terrific ensemble piece the entire cast captures the heart of Churchill's play.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2001/03/06/Entertainment/Theater.Watch.Cloud.Nine-699049.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com (346 words)

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	Free Essay Cloud Research Paper
		They always wondered why some clouds were dark and others were white and fluffy, and why some clouds are so up high and others were so low that they looked reachable by the human hands.
		Altostratus clouds cover the sky with a grayish veil through which the sun or moon may shine as a spot of pale light.
		Cumulonimbus clouds, which are considered to be storm clouds are the ones with flat bases to their rounded domes.
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	Drama: Caryl Churchill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The play is broadly satirical, involving farcical moments in the relationships of colonist and native, master and servant, and man and woman.
		Churchill cast certain parts of the play in a cross-gender fashion: a woman plays a sensitive schoolboy, a man plays an unfulfilled wife.
		A study of the effects of poverty on women, the play was developed with the Joint Stock Theatre Group and researched in the area of England called the Fens, where women work the fields and most of the people are poor.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/churchill.htm (750 words)

	Jayme Koszyn discusses sex and breaking boxes in Cloud Nine
		CLOUD NINE IS DIRECTED by Jayme Koszyn, who works locally in Boston and has worked in Washington, DC, and in New York City.
		Yet their relationship is so characterized by the principles of dominance and submission -- just like a stereotypical heterosexual relationship, where one is playing the wife and one is playing the husband -- that they operate within Chinese boxes, hopping from one to another.
		I think that the notion of the "cloud" -- the reason that the play has the title that it does -- is that, at least in Victorian England, the structures of the box are very clear.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N2/cloud2.02a.html (712 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cloud Nine: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If you don't approach Cloud nine with an open mind it could be seen as offensive, crude and unnecessary but in fact it is a long hard look at society today.
		Churchill's 'Cloud Nine' was a turning point in feminist theatre, a blend of both socialist satire and, at times, slapstick farce.
		The second act moves the play on by 100 years, and the characters of the first act by 25 years, taking a look at how our attitudes to sex have changed; for example the homosexuality encountered in Act One as 'a disease more dangerous than diphtheria' is now acceptable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1854590901 (667 words)

	The Daily Californian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine," which closes out the Rep's season, is strikingly topical as well; yet, it must have been far more so when it was written (in 1979) than in 2002.
		Although the first half takes place in 1880's colonial Africa, "Cloud Nine" is a classic sex comedy-where the many characters chase each other on and off stage, form minor conspiracies, and pair off in ever more surprising couples.
		We find the same Betty, now played by a different actress, talking about how life was different in Africa, and her grown children Edward and Victoria-they have aged only 25 years.
	www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=8831 (875 words)

	Pure elation for one half of "Cloud Nine" - Cadenza
		The continuing trend of provocative and challenging theater out of the Performing Arts Department continues with their newest production of Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine." For the actors, the play requires all to play multiple parts, of which some entail playing multiple genders, while others entail playing multiple sexualities.
		In addition, the play is set in two different time periods, 125 years apart, the first act set in the Arizona Territory of the early American West, the second act in modern New York City.
		The play follows purposefully stereotypical, American 19th- and later 21st-century families: from the matriarch curmudgeon and the grizzly uncle explorer of the frontier, to the lesbian mother and ADD daughter of Lower East Side Manhattan.
	www.studlife.com /news/2004/11/19/Cadenza/Pure-Elation.For.One.Half.Of.cloud.Nine-811222.shtml (395 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Cloud Nine Music
		Indeed, many of the songs on Cloud Nine's latest CD, Notice Co Lounge (a play on "no disco"), have an almost Music Minus One feel, like studio musicians laying down a rhythm track that still awaits a stunning lead instrument.
		If these musicians really felt on cloud nine, they might be able to let go and surprise themselves.
		Cloud Nine Music is at Leopold Bros. on Saturday, September 7, and at the Blind Pig on Friday, September 27.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0209.cloudnine-review.html (437 words)

	CSULB Online 49er: volLIVno27: "Cloud Nine" kicks off Theater Arts new season
		"Cloud Nine" is "an exciting combination of theatricality and naturalism," said Tom Cooke, director of the play and a visiting artist working with the theatre department this semester.
		As the play comes to a close, the characters in England visit with the characters from their past in Africa and have an opportunity to accept each other's differences.
		The casting of these roles — a woman playing a young son and a white man playing a fl servant — are an important element of the story as a whole.
	www.csulb.edu /~d49er/archives/2004/fall/diversions/volLVno27-cloud.shtml (757 words)

	sfbg.com
		I was blown away by the play's adventurousness, its hilarious and compassionate explorations of time and identity and sexuality and class.
		It's the stuff of farce, and that's largely how it's played here, but Churchill has much more on her mind, from the uneasy politics to the queasy romanticism spawned by the collision of cultures, classes, and sexual proclivities.
		Great plays similarly shift in relevance to the times: at its premiere, Cloud Nine was a stunning reflection on the personal cost of Britain's imperialism and of its hypocritical Victorian morality.
	www.sfbg.com /36/38/art_stage_cloud.html (783 words)

	Cloud Nine Canines - Dog Boarding - Atlanta, GA
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	Albion College Theatre Presents ...
		Cloud Nine is a contemporary classic that explores race, class, history, and gender issues in a darkly comic way.
		The play time-warps between 19th century colonial Africa and 20th century London, examining how Victorian values play a role in our lives today.
		Much beloved by theatre audiences for over 20 years, Cloud Nine is hilarious in its lack of subtlety, freely takes shots at contemporary attitudes, and ends with a message of hope for humanity.
	www.albion.edu /ac_news/releases2003-04/theatre_cloudnine.asp (253 words)

	Main Hall to Main St. \| The University of Montana
		"Cloud Nine" is a thought-provoking, humorous work that raises significant questions about societal and personal issues.
		"Cloud Nine" audiences are transported across time, two continents and a range of human relationships in this gender-bending comedy.
		The New York Times described the play as "succinctly sassy, elegantly insulting, written with a quill pen that seems to have been deftly dipped in ice water." For reservations and additional information, call (406) 243-4581, Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m.
	www.umt.edu /urelations/mainhall/1002/briefs.htm (439 words)

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