Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
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Top Girls

Author: Caryl Churchill

Narrator: Amy Brenneman, Megan Austin Oberle, Carolyn Seymour, Concetta Tomei, Kate Steele, Kirsten Potter, Missy Yager, Samantha Robson

Unabridged: 1 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006


Synopsis

In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Amy Brenneman as Marlene
Megan Austin Oberle as Kit/Shona/Waitress
Kirsten Potter as Lady Nijo/Win
Samantha Robson as Mrs. Kidd/Jeanine
Carolyn Seymour as Isabella Bird/Joyce
Kate Steele as Dull Gret/Angie
Concetta Tomei as Pope Joan/Louise
Missy Yager as Patient Griselda/Nell

Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in January of 2006.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeanne on September 03, 2012

It's a book that seems more likely to spark a dozen conversations than one which it is easy to judge per se. To the point: did I like it? Of course. I didn't actually expect to say things like, "it's clumsily written" or "the plot is hackneyed" about a play someone is given to read in lit class. So.......more

Goodreads review by نازنینا on May 26, 2024

دوستش داشتم. خیلی زیاد! شما فکر کن توی پرده‌ی اوّل چند تا شخصیّت زن، چه از برهه‌های مختلف تاریخ چه از افسانه‌های مختلف، دور هم جمع شده‌اند و دارند حرف می‌زنند. از بدبختی‌هاشون، سقط جنین‌هاشون، مبارزه‌هاشون و غیره. که خب گیج‌کننده و سخته خوندنش‌‌ چون خیلی توی حرف هم می‌پرن. و به عنوان یه نمایشنامه‌ی ف......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on September 26, 2022

Caryl Churchill is a master of taking what would in lesser hands be an experiment in collage and creating something emotionally charged and politically. While on the one hand the characters in Top Girls are passionate and examples of strength, they are also figures of regret and uncertainly. Luckily C......more