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Top Girls Caryl Churchill

Top Girls By Caryl Churchill

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill


$11.99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

A play which looks at the political costs of women rising to the top.

Top Girls Summary

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co-workers, clients, and relatives. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male oppressor and even coaches female clients on adopting odious male traits. Marlene has also abandoned her illegitimate and dull-witted daughter. Her emotional and sexual life has become as barren as Lady Macbeth's.

Top Girls Reviews

Top Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind.--The Sunday TimesA dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting.--New Statesman One of our best writers her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme.--Spectator

Additional information

GOR001787340
9780573130137
0573130132
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Samuel French Ltd
19840901
64
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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