Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Leveller Pamphlet. In December 1648, a pamphlet called Light Shining in Buckinghamshire was published by a group of Levellers that was active in anti-enclosure riots in the county from 1647-8. Originally written in 1976, the play deliberately restages Civil War as history lived by the common people, and Royalists are barely referred to. Owenite Community. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is itself a knotty, slow play. Light Shining In Buckinghamshire. ... LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 74. Jonathon Kemp's 2010 play The Digger's Daughter tells the tale of the Diggers and quotes much of Winstanley's teaching directly. Caryl Churchill Strawberry Vale Productions Arcola Theatre (2010) Share: The title of Churchill's play, originally presented by Joint Stock in 1976, comes from that of an anonymous Digger pamphlet of 1649: Light Shining In Buckinghamshire, or A Discovery of the main ground, original Cause of all the Slavery in the world, but cheifly (sic) in England. The play was generally well received and deservedly so. Writings The piece’s ambition is grand, but its scope is intimate, allowing for immense freedom of interpretation. Light Shining in Buchinghamshire (1976) is not the only play in which she shows this curiosity. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is itself a knotty, slow play. Iver Diggers Colony C1649-50? A reveiw of the Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill The Play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill recently came to an end at the Arcola Theatre in London. I. verse 2. who is the image of the Invisible God: now Man being made after God's image or likeness, and created by the word of God, which word was made Flesh and dwelt amongst us; which word was life, and that life the light of men, I. Joh. The title of Caryl Churchill’s play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire comes from a 1649 pamphlet from the radical Digger movement and the piece follows an assorted group of revolutionaries through the middle years of the 17th century that saw civil war, revolution, the execution of King Charles and the declaration of a republic. Extract. Issued their own pamphlet, may have been behind the Light Shining in Buckinghamshire pamphlets. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. An Agreement Of The Free People of England, May 1 1649. The title of Caryl Churchill’s play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire comes from a 1649 pamphlet from the radical Digger movement and the piece follows an assorted group of revolutionaries through the middle years of the 17th century that saw civil war, revolution, the execution of King Charles and the declaration of a republic. Now here we are, revived at the National with a cast of eighteen with forty-four supernumeraries bulking out the stage. 1832 A four hundred acre estate inspected by the first Co-operative Congress as a possible site for a … Caryl Churchill’s 1976 play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, now revived Off-Broadway by New York Theatre Workshop, takes its title from a 1648 political pamphlet outlining the sources of economic slavery amid a murky mess of religion and politics.