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Top Girls - 60 Years of Modern Plays (Hardcover)
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Top Girls - 60 Years of Modern Plays (Hardcover)
Series: Modern Plays
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Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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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 McFerran.
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