Churchill, Caryl | Fen
FEN
PRODUCTION REVIEWS
Frank Rich (review date 31 May 1983)
SOURCE: "Fen, New Work By Caryl Churchill," in The New York Times, 31 May 1983, p. 10.
[The Joint Stock production of Fen debuted in London in February 1983 and played at the Almeida Theatre until March, when it began a tour that included a run at New York's Public Theatre. In the following New York production review. Rich asserts that although the play is "at times the most off-putting" of Churchill's works, it is nevertheless "another confirmation that its author possesses one of the boldest theatrical imaginations to emerge in this decade. "]
Fen, the new Caryl Churchill play at the Public, could well be called Bottom Girls. As the author's Top Girls told of Marlene, a self-made businesswoman who sells out her provincial working-class roots and humanity for corporate success in London, so the new one examines...
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