Top Girls: Actor's Script Version - Couverture souple

Churchill, Caryl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573630232 ISBN 13 : 9780573630231

Editeur : Concord Theatricals, 2010

Synopsis

Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints.

Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp these ladies are also her co workers clients and relatives. Marlene like her famous guests has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become figuratively speaking a male

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Biographie de l'auteur

Born in London, 1938, Churchill had some early acclaim with radio plays like The Ants (1962), not not not not not enough oxygen (1971) and Schreber's Nervous Illness (1972). However, it was through contact with feminism that she developed the language and structures to carry the complexity of her ideas. Top Girls (1982), perhaps Churchill's best play, keenly predicted the rise of bourgeois 'post-feminism' in the Thatcherite 1980s, raising stimulating questions, notably in its tour de force opening where the stories of six women from history overlap, clash and connect over a restaurant meal. Fen (1983) dissected economic and sexual oppressions in the Fenlands; the Foucault-inspired Softcops (1984) considered the meanings of criminality and punishment; and Serious Money (1987) was a witty verse thriller about the City, substantially attended by its objects of attack. Churchill's witty, powerfully intelligent dialogue and her uniquely imaginative sense of structure saw her at the forefront of British playwriting in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Concord Theatricals
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573630232
• ISBN 13: 9780573630231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible