Top Girls | Essays and Criticism

  • The Importance of Angie in Top Girls

    In this essay, Annette Petrusso discusses the importance of the character of Angie in Top Girls, and her role in the construction and development of the central character in the play, Marlene.

  • Feminist Drama: The Politics of the Self: Churchill and Keatley

    In the following essay on Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, author Jasbir Jain discusses how Churchill writes a feminist world to create an emotional space which develops a ‘‘collective description’’ of the characters' experience as women.

  • De-realised Women: Performance and Identity in Top Girls

    In the following essay on Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, author Joseph Marohl discusses how Churchill creates her characters and dramas with ‘‘deliberate confusion … and playfulness’’ to examine difficult social and emotional concepts of gender and history, effectively de-centering gender as the primary dramatic focal point.