Concert Details
| Title: | Top Girls - Caryl Churchill |
| Performed by: | Act Too Productions |
| Time: | Friday, 12 May 2006, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | Hawth Theatre, Crawley |
| Description: | Top girls is a terrific play that deals with the role of women in society throughout the ages. The play depicts the troubles and challenges that women have had to overcome in order to be successful and provides comedy, entertainment and real emotion. Politics get Personal in "Top Girls." Marlene has something to celebrate. she's the first female executive at the Top Girls employment agency. She's conquered London in the early '80s, following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher. Hard-working women can finally earn the same rewards as men: money, power and independence. But there's a price to pay for success, and Marlene must come to terms with her own sacrifice. The first act consists of a dinner party given by twentieth-century head-hunter and power dresser, Marlene.. This is attended by six women representing stages in the development of (woman, each coming from a different century and country. These women seem to have made it but 'seem' is the key word. It is clear that the women have been chosen both for their own inner strength and fortitude and the way in which they have been mistreated by men. The pace soon hots up again as we enter the Top Girls employment agency. This is the castle over which Marlene reigns. We see a series of interviews between the agents and potential employees. In a few witty minutes, it becomes apparent that there is severe prejudice against women in the job market. Churchill is fair in her assessment as she demonstrates that, sometimes, it is the women's own fault that they do not get jobs of which they are worthy.After a first interval, we are thrown into the Suffolk countryside to the home of Marlene's backward niece, Angie and her mother Joyce. This is the early Eighties and the hardships of life are very different from those experienced by the women in the first act. Here you can see the difference their surrounding have made on the sisters as a heated debate brings out hidden secrets, resentment, weaknesses and sides or the characters that were not apparent before. The play starts and finishes with the questions still vital in our lives today " Can Women have it all?" and what are you sacrificing? |
| Tickets: | Hawth 01293 553636 www.hawth.co.uk |
| Contact: | info |
