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Most of Caryl Churchill's plays, in which past, present and future are mixed with dreams, stage a dark and gloomy world. In this dreadful environment, it is women and children who are the most severely affected. Oppressed people do not live a desirable life, nor do they have hope for future. Governments change, revolutions and coup d’états take place, but nothing changes in the end, and expectation of a happy ending for the oppressed is perpetually postponed. We witness a world stripped of its meaning in every way. Women try to escape from the existing conditions but it is in vain. The more they struggle the worse their injuries are. Therefore, they experience various dilemmas and are involved in meaningless actions. The characters’ words and actions often contradict each other. In a patriarchal community governed with cruelty people only pursue their interests. Thus, they are either indifferent to their environment or even harm the environment. As a result, nature is damaged and ca-lamities increase. Life is full of risks and nobody is safe. Fears, ambiguities, deaths and terror have turned life into a nightmare. This article aims at drawing attention to the dreadful world encompassing us, re-vealing the dimensions of oppressions and violence.