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Top girls

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a serminal 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.

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  • "A two act play for seven women."
  • "Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a serminal 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."@en
  • ""Summary: directed Caryl Churchill's play, Top Girls. Along with directing the play I will utilize the art and history mentioned in script in the design of the set and costumed, working with the Associated Actors and Technicians of Weber State as performers, designers, and technicians. My discoveries of Churchill's views on feminism reflected in the direction and design of the show.""
  • "Caryl Churchill: 'A 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' Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman. 'Ms Churchill is one of our best writers ... her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme' Bryan Robertson, Spectator. Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a serminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's."@en
  • ""Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831-1904), the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b. 1258), the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, led a crowd of women on a charge through hell; Pope Joan, the transvestite early female pope and last but not least Patient Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. As the evening continues we are involved with the stories of all five women and the impending crisis in Marlene's own life."--Publisher description."
  • "This edition contains a synopsis, commentary and notes."@en

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  • "History"
  • "Prompt books"@en
  • "Plays"@en
  • "Manuscripts (document genre)"@en
  • "Dramat angielski"
  • "kvindeskildringer"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Comedies"
  • "Drama"
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  • "Topgirls"
  • "Castillian Spanish translation of Caryl Churchill's Top girls"
  • "Top girls"@da
  • "Top girls"
  • "Top girls"@en
  • "Top girls : a play"
  • "Top Girls"@en
  • "Top Girls"
  • "Ch'oesang ŭi yŏsŏngdŭl"

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