Top Girls

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A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. 4/6. Top Girls By Caryl Churchill. This landmark play examines the political costs of women rising to the top, written shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. 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 history who each tell their individual stories of emancipation and oppression. Marlene....Emma FieldingIsabella....Brigit ForsythNijo....Naoko Mori Dull Gret....Saskia Mulder Pope Joan....Sheila HancockGriselda....Olwen MayJoyce....Helen MccroryAngie....Emily ChenneryKit....Lulu PopplewellNell....Nikki Amuka Bird Win....Claire RushbrookJeanine....Elianne Byrne Louise....Siobhan FinneranMrs Kidd....Julia RounthwaiteShona....Rina MahoneyOriginal music by Dominique Le Gendre. Director Nadia Molinari

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A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court.
4/6.
Top Girls
By Caryl Churchill.
This landmark play examines the political costs of women rising to the top, written shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister.
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 history who each tell their individual stories of emancipation and oppression.
Marlene....Emma FieldingIsabella....Brigit ForsythNijo....Naoko Mori
Dull Gret....Saskia Mulder
Pope Joan....Sheila HancockGriselda....Olwen MayJoyce....Helen MccroryAngie....Emily ChenneryKit....Lulu PopplewellNell....Nikki Amuka Bird
Win....Claire RushbrookJeanine....Elianne Byrne
Louise....Siobhan FinneranMrs Kidd....Julia RounthwaiteShona....Rina MahoneyOriginal music by Dominique Le Gendre.
Director Nadia Molinari

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