Wednesday 5 – Saturday 8 February 2014

Top Girls

By Caryl Churchill
Directed by David Shirley

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 the ages and generations, Top Girls was hailed 'the best British play ever by a woman dramatist' (The Guardian).

One of the seminal plays of the twentieth century, Top Girls flashes with razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality.

'Top Girls' pinpoints the exact moment success overtook compassion as the cardinal social virtue. (Time Out Magazine)

Cast

Marlene - Fiona MacNeil
Isabella Bird/Joyce/Mrs Kidd - Rachel Kilpatrick
Lady Nijo/Win - Amy Clark
Dull Gret/Angie - Rowan Lark
Pope Joan/Louise - Eve Shotton
Patient Griselda/Nell/Jeannie - Sophie Ormond
Waitress/Kit/Shona - Franziska Brunzel-Roberts

Designer: Olivia Du Monceau