CLOUD NINE

By Caryl Churchill

A play about sex, mothers, power, Africa, children, work, sex, politics, money, Queen Victoria and sex -- Caryl Churchill’s landmark play transports us across time and two continents as it covers the range of human relationships. In this wild anarchic comedy, a group of British colonialists in 19th century Africa desperately struggle to keep their sexuality hidden under the veneer of upper crust decorum. After discarding the shackles of repression, they discover some difficult truths when they embrace the free-wheeling 1980s.