Caryl Churchill Gender Roles

One of England’s most well known modern playwrights of her time is, Caryl Churchill. Throughout her career she has strived at play writing to make the world question gender roles, stereotypes and issues that are faced with peoples daily problems, for example, political and sexual oppression, and violence. Caryl Churchill has been part of many aspect of theater performance throughout her almost sixty year career. Not only has she been a strong force on the stage, but has also had strong influences with radio and television. She is truly a talented woman dabbling in not only a Brechtian style of theatre that has been commented on time and time again, but also musicals of a sort. Author Laura Doan, of "The Plays of Caryl Churchill:
Caryl Churchill has been famous for using songs in her works. ‘The songs serve to emphasize the postmodern feminism of Caryl Churchill's "sign-systems"; the structural placement of the songs emphasizes the feminist position against traditional male dramatic structures, while simultaneously criticizing traditional patriarchal mistreatment of women.’ (Price). Caryl Churchill's placement of the songs is very similar to Cixous' belief, which is that "feminine writing is not merely a new style of writing; it is the very possibility of change, the space that can serve as a springboard for subversive thought, the precursory movement of a transformation of social and cultural standards".
and of being too philosophical and aesthetic and not sufficiently political." But she also feels increasingly confident that her plays are political, and importantly so. What she wants to do, she continues, is what she sees feminism as doing--revising history of the past and in the present. But then, she adds, she wants to do something more; what that is exactly, she will only know when she writes her next play.” (Keyssar). “Throughout Caryl Churchill’s form of feminism writings, she focuses on the deliberate choices women must make about their own presentation for getting more advance in this “male” world.” (Noble). Caryl Churchill started this trend of feminism throughout her plays and has received most of her fame from the basis of being a socialist-feminist; she has been writing about women's needs to establish for themselves and for future