Ice Cream - Couverture souple

An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.

'The idea of Oregon, the word, just the word Oregon really thrills me'.

'You can't help loving England. The green fields. The accents. The pubs.'

Set half in the UK and half in the US, Icecream tells the story of two couples - an American man and wife and an English brother and sister. Implicated in each other's lives more than any of them would wish, their respective love affairs with each other's countries prove difficult to explain.

Also published in Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

Charged with the black humour and esthetic adventurousness one expects from the author of Cloud 9, Top Girls, Fen and Serious Money... Icecream hurtles forward in mysterious, strobe-bright, snapshot-quick vignettes of acidic verbal wit and oblique events. --New York Times

A dramatist who must be amongst the best half dozen now writing...a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting. --Benedict Nightingale