Churchill Caryl - Top Girls 60 Years Of Modern Plays - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: I believe in the individual. Look at me. Set in the early Thatcher years Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and modern characters in a continuous conversation across ages and generations it was described by The Guardian as the best British play ever from a woman dramatist . The play opens with an anachronistic dinner party hosted by Marlene the newly - promoted manager of the Top Girls employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: a female Pope a courtesan - cum - nun a tireless adventurer an obedient wife from Chaucer and the leader of a charge into hell from a Bruegel painting. The feminist themes introduced by this cacophonous scene echo throughout the more contemporary action of the play as Churchill uses the setting of the Top Girls agency to allow a glimpse into the lives of several very different working women. The play presents complex questions about a feminism which mimics aggressive oppressive behaviour and success which can only be achieved by abandoning family ties to force a way to the top. Top Girls premiered in 1982 at the Royal Court Theatre London. Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Plays series began in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey and has grown over six decades to now include more than 1000 plays by some of the best writers from around the world. This new special edition hardback of Top Girls was published to celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays in 2019, chosen by a public vote and features a foreword by critic and journalist Ann Mc Ferran.
Title: Top Girls 60 Years Of Modern Plays
Author(s): Churchill Caryl
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350134911
Pages: 120 Pages
Publication Date: 11/4/2019
Series: Modern Plays
Category: Plays, Playscripts