What If If Only (Royal Court ) London Reviews and Tickets

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Meditative, Reflective

About the Show

Caryl Churchill's short play explores the impact of the death of a partner.

"What If, If Only", directed by James Macdonald, reflects on possibilities, love and loss. Caryl Churchill is considered to be one of Britain's most important and influential playwrights, best known for the highly acclaimed "Top Girls". Her work is known for its sharp exploration of the personal within the political.

Member Reviews (1)

Reflective, Meditative

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Critic Reviews (6)

There is nobody like Caryl Churchill and it’s hard to think of any writer in history so completely on top of their game at her age. It’s just 20 minutes, but it contains whole worlds.
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It’s as if Churchill balances the dread and confusion, intimately personal and macro-political, that's sloshing about these terminal-feeling times on a pin.
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Trust Caryl Churchill to pack more meaty matter into 20 minutes than most playwrights manage in two hours. Her surreal new short covers nothing less than bereavement, time and the universe – and does so with dizzying complexity.
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As ever with Churchill, the meaning of her work probably isn’t that simple; like the multiverse, there are infinite possibilities for interpretation. Beautifully, sensitively, Macdonald’s production honours that ambiguity...
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Into her 80s but as innovative as ever, Caryl Churchill's new play, What If If Only (at the Royal Court), adds to the trend in exploring fracturing futures...
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John Heffernan rawly embodies the lurches between memories of past closeness and the chasm of cold absence that grief’s derangement brings.
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