Cloud Nine
Cloud Nine Author: Caryl Churchill
First Performance: 1979, London
Published: 1979
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Clive's residence in Africa, Victorian period, and a London park, 1979
Cast: 7m, 8f
Clive is a British colonial administrator in Africa in Victorian times. With him live his wife Betty, his mother-in-law Maud, his two children Edward and Victoria, the governess Ellen, and his African servant Joshua. The native populace is rioting, and Mrs Saunders, a widow, comes to them to seek safety. Her arrival is soon followed by that of Harry Bagley, an explorer. Clive makes passionate advances to Mrs Saunders, Betty fancies Harry, who is, however, a homosexual who has sex with Joshua and the young Edward, and then mistakenly assumes Clive to be making advances towards him. Ellen, who reveals herself to be a...
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