Cloud Nine

Act One takes place in British colonial Africa and features a man playing the mistress of the household, a white actor playing a black servant, and a doll playing the well-behaved daughter. Act Two is 100 years later in London, but the characters have only aged 25 years, as they explore their sexual identities through everything from heterosexual adultery to bisexual incest. This is Caryl Churchill’s outrageous satirical farce, one of the sharpest, politicized and funniest plays ever written.