Top Girls (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Caryl Churchill
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early 1980’s
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Tradition, Sexism, Gender roles, Alienation, 1980’s, England or English people, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Business or business people, Ambition, Success or failure, Loneliness, Work or workers, Employment or employees, Career women
- Locales: England
Places Discussed
Restaurant. Fictional space outside time and place with a table set for dinner. Caryl Churchill’s realistic dialogue, with overlapping chatter and constant ordering from menus, grounds this surreal scene in naturalistic behavior in order to humanize the five characters who act as the various thematic voices within Marlene’s culturally splintered psyche. All six women travel to find adventure or notoriety, filling the scene with “true” tales of exotic globetrotting, all of which contrast with the depressing conditions of the women’s home lives within...
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