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Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

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Book name: Top Girls (2024)
Category: Plays
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Pages: 87 pages
ISBN13: 0413554805
ISBN: 0413554805
Language: English
Publication data: Sept. 24, 2009, 7 a.m.
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, Top Girls was hailed as 'the best British play ever from a woman dramatist' by The Guardian.

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Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill

3 books

Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, dramatisation of the abuses of power, and exploration of sexual politics.[1] She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and one of world theatre's most influential writers.

Her early work developed Bertolt Brecht's modernist dramatic and theatrical techniques of 'Epic theatre' to explore issues of gender and sexuality. From A Mouthful of Bir… Read more