Move on to Monday morning in the Top Girls agency in London for more of a landscape view of the present historical moment of growing female prosperity within which Angie will turn up to seek refuge with her steely aunt. Scene Two is a picture of teenage angst set in the backyard of a Suffolk cottage on Sunday afternoon and involving fifteen-year-old Angie who turns out to be the niece of high flying Marlene. The action then moves to the harsh reality of the early 1980s. There is the iconic phantasmagorical opening featuring protagonist Marlene, the newly promoted Managing Director of a women’s employment agency Top Girls, at a Saturday night dinner party together with five historic and mythical female figures ranging from 9 th century (secretly female) Pope Joan and 13 th century Japanese concubine turned nun Lady Nijo, to Victorian traveller Isabella Bird, folklorically famous Dull Gret captured in a Bruegel painting and patient Griselda celebrated by both Boccaccio and Chaucer. It’s worth recapping briefly on the play’s structure, which consists of four scenes. Liv Hill plays Angie, Katherine Kingsley plays Marlene in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill Photo by Johan Persson
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