Greenwich Theatre’s first in-house production since December 2020 has been announced. Bad Nights and Odd Days will feature three unforgettable short plays by critically-acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill (Top Girls, A Number, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You). 

Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010, Churchill is a British playwright known for her explosive exploration of sexual politics and feminism. This season will see three of her lesser performed plays – Abortive, Seagulls, and Sleepless Nights – brought to life for the stage. The cast will be led by acclaimed actor Paul McGann with further casting to be announced. 

Bad Nights and Odd Days will be directed by Greenwich Theatre’s Artistic Director, James Haddrell. This collection of plays will be reinvigorated for the stage, exploring life-shattering events, human relationships, and psychic phenomena. It shows that Churchill is a playwright of dichotomies – of the unspoken and the spoken, of naturalism and the supernatural, the personal and the political. 

Abortive follows a married couple dealing with a painful event and Three More Sleepless Nights explores daily arguments and the power of the unsaid and suppressed emotions. Seagull is an allegory about losing one’s ability to write.

Speaking about the upcoming production, Haddrell said: “We are delighted to be emerging from the last year of closure with this special collection of short plays. Caryl Churchill is undoubtedly one of the most important British playwrights of the past half century, and thanks to support from Arts Council England I am excited to be able to share some of her earliest, most rarely performed work. With special permission from Churchill herself to bring the pieces together under the title Bad Nights and Odd Days, I know that this collection of intimate, quietly heart-stopping dramas will offer a powerful, moving evening of live theatre - the kind of evening that we have all been missing so much.”

The show will run from 23 June to 10 July with a running time of 90 minutes and no interval. Tickets are £26 (concessions £21) and can be purchased here.