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Top Girls
Opens: 05/08/2011 Closes: 29/10/2011
Trafalgar Studios, London
A lively exploration of success and female identity in Thatcher-era Britain, Top Girls opens with ruthless career woman Marlene sitting down to dinner with five iconic historical female figures. Max Stafford-Clark brings his production to the West End following a sell-out run at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. For more information visit: http://www.topgirlstheplay.com Buy: http://store.ambassadortickets.com/ShowDatesCombo.aspx
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Time Out“Should a feminist shy away from power?...” Instead of coming over as '80s kitsch, Out of Joint's production suggests that 'Top Girls' pinpoints the exact moment success overtook compassion as the cardinal social virtue...
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this is london“Top stuff...” How wonderful to see the stage of a West End play filled entirely by women. [...] Lucy Briers makes a deliciously straight-talking pontiff and Poulet transforms from a comically monosyllabic dinner guest into the sort of girl history...
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Exeunt“Strikingly original yet instantly familiar... ” The play shows its age, with its black and white division between the faithful who stay and suffer and the betrayers who leave and prosper, shaking off ties of family and community...
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Whatsonstage.com“It’s beautifully acted...” I’ve always loved and admired the play, but I had forgotten how ingeniously it makes its effects and arguments...
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