Top Girls

Act 1: A surreal dinner party for five mythical and literary women of the past – hosted by Marlene, the newly promoted head of London’s Top Girls employment agency – sets in motion a fascinating examination of the perennial question, “Can women have it all?” Act 2: Back to reality, Churchill takes on both work place and home front with unflinching honesty and compassion. Complex themes of success and sacrifice, career and contentment, and capitalism and feminism collide with razor-sharp wit in this provocative, poignant piece. Winner of the 1982-1983 Obie Award for playwriting, Top Girls has earned its place among the new classics of the contemporary theater.