Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., Churchill Caryl

Автор: Churchill, Caryl
Название: Top girls
ISBN: 1350134910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350134911
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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I believe in the individual. Look at me.

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal 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 it was described by The Guardian as 'the best British play ever from a woman dramatist'.

The play opens with an anachronistic dinner party hosted by Marlene, the newly-promoted manager of the 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: a female Pope, a courtesan-cum-nun, a tireless adventurer, an obedient wife from Chaucer and the leader of a charge into hell from a Bruegel painting. The feminist themes introduced by this cacophonous scene echo throughout the more contemporary action of the play, as Churchill uses the setting of the 'Top Girls' agency to allow a glimpse into the lives of several very different working women.

The play presents complex questions about a feminism which mimics aggressive, oppressive behaviour, and success which can only be achieved by abandoning family ties to force a way to the top.

Top Girls premiered in 1982 at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Plays series began in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey and has grown over six decades to now include more than 1000 plays by some of the best writers from around the world. This new special edition hardback of Top Girls was published to celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays in 2019, chosen by a public vote and features a foreword by critic and journalist Ann McFerran.

Автор: Hart Caryl
Название: Princess and the Christmas Rescue
ISBN: 0857639781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857639783
Издательство: Nosy Crow
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Описание: Try The Princess and the Christmas Rescue, The Princess and the Giant, The Princess and the Presents and The Princess and the Pea.Every Nosy Crow paperback picture book comes with a free `Stories Aloud` audio recording - just scan the QR code and listen along!

Автор: Churchill Caryl
Название: Cloud Nine - A Play
ISBN: 0573016682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573016684
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Описание: Written for Joint Stock, this theatre company's workshop for the play was "sexual politics", thus giving Caryl Churchill the idea for her parallel between colonial and sexual oppression. Act I takes place in Victorian Africa, whilst Act II is set in modern London. Much interplay is made of gender and colour: for example, Clive, the white settler, has a black servant, Joshua, who is played by a white because he wants to be what the whites want him to be. Hilarious and thought-provoking.

Автор: Churchill Caryl
Название: Top Girls
ISBN: 0573630232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573630231
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Цена: 23230.00 T
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Описание: Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints.

Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co workers, clients and relatives. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male

Автор: Churchill Carly
Название: Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
ISBN: 1848428243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848428249
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Описание: The fifth volume of the collected plays of one of our finest playwrights.

Автор: Churchill, Caryl
Название: Top girls
ISBN: 0413554805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780413554802
Издательство: A & C Black
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Описание: At a restaurant party thrown by Marlene of the Top Girls Employment Agency are Isabella Bird, the 19th-century traveller, Lady Nijo, courtesan to a 13th-century Japanese Emperor, Brueghel`s Dull Gret, Pope Joan and Patient Griselda, wife of Chaucer`s Clerk.