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''Cloud 9'' is a two-act play written by British playwright Caryl Churchill, workshopped with the Joint Stock Theatre Company in late 1978 and premiered at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, on 14 February 1979.〔Caryl Churchill, Plays: One (London: Methuen London, 1985)〕 The two acts of the play form a contrapuntal structure. Act I is set in British colonial Africa in the Victorian era, and Act II is set in a London park in 1979. However, between the acts only twenty-five years pass for the characters. Each actor plays one role in Act I and a different role in Act II - the characters who appear in both acts are played by different actors in the first and second. Act I parodies the conventional comedy genre and satirizes Victorian society and colonialism. Act II shows what could happen when the restrictions of both the comic genre and Victorian ideology are loosened. The play uses controversial portrayals of sexuality and obscene language, and establishes a parallel between colonial and sexual oppression.〔Michael Patterson, The Oxford Guide to Plays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)〕 Its humour depends on incongruity and the carnivalesque, and helps to convey Churchill's political message about accepting people who are different and not dominating them or forcing them into particular social roles. ==Characters== Act 1 *Clive, a colonial administrator *Betty, his wife, played by a man *Joshua, his black servant, played by a white *Edward, his son, played by a woman *Victoria, his daughter, a ventriloquist's dummy *Maud, his mother-in-law *Ellen, Edward's governess *Harry Bagley, an explorer *Mrs. Saunders, a widow (played by the same actress who plays Ellen) Act 2 *Betty, now played by a woman (normally the same actress who plays Edward) *Edward, her son, now played by a man (normally the same actor who plays Betty) *Victoria, her daughter (normally played by the same actress who plays Maud) *Martin, Victoria's husband (normally played by the same actor who plays Harry) *Lin, a lesbian single mother (normally played by the same actress who plays Ellen/Mrs. Saunders) *Cathy, Lin's daughter, age 5, played by a man (normally the same actor who plays Clive) *Gerry, Edward's lover (normally played by the same actor who plays Joshua) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cloud 9 (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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