The Skriker Actor Packet
The Skriker Actor Packet
The Skriker Actor Packet
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To the <strong>Actor</strong>s,<br />
Welcome to the world of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Skriker</strong>! We, your dramaturgs, have assembled this packet<br />
of articles, information, stories, and pictures to aid you as you take the journey through<br />
Churchill’s modern!day fairy tale.<br />
Like in many of her plays of social commentary, Caryl Churchill manipulates the<br />
elements of time in her telling of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Skriker</strong>. As the narrator of this cautionary tale,<br />
the <strong>Skriker</strong> vows to seek revenge on humans not only for forgetting the imaginary<br />
folktale creatures from their childhood, but for the past deeds humans have<br />
purposefully chosen to forget !! the years of pollution, social wrongdoing, and<br />
environmental neglect. This past, embodied by the creatures of the Underworld, haunts<br />
the present world of Lily and Josie, as well as carries a nightmarish omen for the future<br />
if we continue down the same path.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following packet is separated into three corresponding sections: <strong>The</strong> Past, <strong>The</strong><br />
Present, and <strong>The</strong> Future. At the beginning of each one, you will find some of our own<br />
reflections and thoughts to help you contextualize the information that follows. We<br />
hope each section allows you to discover how one a"ects the other, and how truly<br />
important it is that we heed the message of the <strong>Skriker</strong>. For if we don’t, we will have<br />
created a world that is irreversibly poisoned and uninhabitable for both us and our<br />
o"spring.<br />
Please keep in mind that this packet is only a sampling of the information we have<br />
gathered, so please feel free to contact us anytime with questions, concerns, or<br />
anything else you may want to run by us.<br />
A full text copy of all the fairy tales and folktales mentioned in this packet will be<br />
available in the rehearsal room for you to peruse through or to check out. Also, if any of<br />
the other sources from the packet strike your interest and you would like to read more,<br />
let us know and we can bring a copy of the book or article for you, as well as point you to<br />
further resources you may find helpful.<br />
Finally, please be aware that throughout the packet you may find images that are<br />
particularly disturbing and unsettling. However, we felt they were important to<br />
include in order to emphasize both the shocking and damaged reality that, like as the<br />
play points out, we too often ignore.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Nicole Prahin & Dani Mettler<br />
832!444!2478 # # 505!980!2861<br />
nprahin@depaul.edu# # danidanimettler@gmail.com<br />
Dramaturg# # # Assistant Dramaturg# # # #
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