Top Girls
From: Friday, 5th August 2011
To: Saturday, 29 October 2011
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Synopsis
Max Stafford-Clark and Caryl Churchill are re-united once again for this smash-hit transfer from Chichester of Top Girls.
The critics are raving that this powerful and brilliant new production substantiates Top Girls as one of the great modern classics.
It's Thatcher's England and hard-nosed businesswoman Marlene is hosting a dinner party to celebrate her promotion to MD of the Top Girls Employment Agency. Her guests - all powerful women from myth and history - create an extraordinary gathering.
A provocative study of powerful women in Thatcher's Britain, the play examines the compromises made by women in the quest for success, and what happens to those left behind.
The Top Girls cast includes Stella Gonet, Suranne Jones, Catherine McCormack, Lucy Briers, Laura Elphinstone, Lisa Kerr and Olivia Poulet.
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Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 17 August 2011
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, written to coincide with the rise and rise of Mrs Thatcher in the early 1980s, remains one of the canonical plays of the late 20th century, performed all over the world and long established as a set text in drama schools and universities.
So it’s good to be reminded in this stunning Out of Joint production by the play’s original director, Max Stafford-Clark, first seen at Chichester in June, that its theatrical juice still flows unclogged by reputation; Stafford-Clark directs as if the play had just landed in his in-tray.
Structurally, Top Girls is brilliant, radical and resonant: great women from history – a female pope, a Victorian explorer, a Japanese courtesan, Patient Griselda and Brueghel’s Dull Gret – convene in a restaurant, La Primadonna, to celebrate Marlene’s appointment as managing director of an employment agency.
In the second act, Mar...
Latest User Review
Alf King - 12 March 2012:
Jumbled and confusing. No doubt loved by those in the professions but not at all entertaining for a regular audience. Self-indulgent and ponderous were the obvious descriptions for me, with tedious and a waste of money following closely behind. Nicely ironic for those who didn't really approve of the politics of the 80@s but thrived anyway; not so for those who genuinely suffered. Not Recommended....
Cast
Suranne Jones (Marlene)
Catherine McCormack (Lady Nijo/Win)
Stella Gonet (Isabella Bird/Joyce/Mrs Kidd)
Lucy Briers (Pope Joan/Louise)
Olivia Poulet (Gull Gret/Angie/Jeanine)
Lisa Kerr
Laura Elphinstone
Creative
Caryl Churchill (Author)
Sonia Friedman (Producer)
Minerva Theatre Festival (Producer)
Out of Joint (Producer)
Max Stafford-Clark (Director)
Tim Shortall (Design)
Jason Taylor (Lighting)
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