SOURCE: Gee, Maggie. “Rooms of Their Own.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4909 (2 May 1997): 21.

In the following mixed review of Hotel, a coupling of Churchill's two short plays Eight Rooms and Two Nights, Gee applauds the seamless and imaginative Eight Rooms, but describes Two Nights as confusing and disorganized.

Caryl Churchill is Britain's best known living female playwright, author of two plays which helped define the hard edge of the 1980s, Top Girls and Serious Money. 1997 has already seen revivals of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and of the ground-breaking 1979 gender comedy Cloud Nine; this month, her new “dance-opera,” with music by Orlando Gough and choreography by Ian Spink, has opened in Hanover and in London, performed by Second Stride.

Hotel consists of two loosely linked pieces, Eight Rooms and Two Nights. Eight Rooms is a light opera with choreographed movement; Two Nights concentrates more on dance and is much grimmer...