Your partner's died, could things have been different? Caryl Churchill's short play  What If If Only  premiered in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2021, directed by James Macdonald. This edition also includes the resonant and surreal short piece, Air . "Caryl Churchill has remade the landscape of contemporary drama – and earned herself a place among the greats." ― Guardian "A truly uncompromising theatrical voice at the top of her game... [Churchill] packs more into this 20-minute piece about death, grief and the multiverse than many writers manage at seven times the length... it has a crystalline beauty, sly humour and boundless imagination." ― Evening Standard "Quietly astonishing... a taut distillation and a gripping realisation of a giddying idea that resonates long after the curtain falls." ― The Stage "There is nobody like Caryl Churchill and it's hard to think of any writer in history so completely on top of their game at her age. [ What If If Only  is] just 20 minutes, but it contains whole worlds." ― Time Out "Packs many an emotional punch, traumatic and claustrophobic while laugh-out-loud funny." ― Independent Caryl Churchill  is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio. Her stage plays include:  Owners  (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1972);  Objections to Sex and Violence  (Royal Court, 1975);  Light Shining in Buckinghamshire  (Joint Stock, 1976);  Vinegar Tom  (Monstrous Regiment, 1976);  Traps  (Royal Court, 1977);  Cloud Nine  (Joint Stock, 1979);  Three More Sleepless Nights  (Soho Poly and Royal Court, 1980);  Top Girls  (Royal Court, 1982);  Fen  (Joint Stock, 1983);  Softcops  (RSC, 1984);  A Mouthful of Birds  with David Lan (Joint Stock, 1986);  Serious Money  (Royal Court and Wyndham's, London, then Public Theater, New York, 1987);  Icecream  (Royal Court, 1989);  Mad Forest  (Central School of Speech and Drama, then Royal Court, 1990);  Lives of the Great Poisoners  with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1991);  The Skriker  (Royal National Theatre, 1994);  Thyestes  translated from Seneca (Royal Court, 1994);  Hotel  with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1997);  This is a Chair  (Royal Court, 1997);  Blue Heart  (Joint Stock, 1997);  Far Away  (Royal Court, 2000, and Albery, London, 2001, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2002);  A Number  (Royal Court, 2002, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2004);  A Dream Play  after Strindberg (Royal National Theatre, 2005);  Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?  (Royal Court, 2006, then Public Theater, New York, 2008);  Bliss , translated from Olivier Choinière (Royal Court, 2008);  Seven Jewish Children – a play for Gaza  (Royal Court, 2009);  Love and Information  (Royal Court, 2012);  Ding Dong the Wicked  (Royal Court, 2012);  Here We Go  (National Theatre, 2015);  Escaped Alone  (Royal Court, 2016),  Pigs and Dogs  (Royal Court, 2016),  Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.  (Royal Court, 2019) and  What If If Only  (Royal Court, 2021).