Top Girls (Student Editions)

Top Girls (Student Editions)

Caryl Churchill: 'A dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing... a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting' Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman<br /><br />'Ms Churchill is one of our best writers... her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme' Bryan Robertson, Spectator<br /><br />Set in the early Thatcher years,<i> Top Girls </i>is a serminal 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 ages and generations, <i>Top Girls </i>was hailed as 'the best British play ever by a woman dramatist' (<i>Guardian</i>).<br /><br />Commentary and notes by Bill Naismith and Nick Worrall<br />