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The short answer is – continuing success. And 30 years into its history, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls has scored a hit in London and is on tour. It is directed by its original director, the great Max Stafford-Clark, stars Caroline Catz (Luisa in TV's...
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Thatcher's England is in the spotlight again as the inventive and ground-breaking Top Girls comes to the Everyman this week. Meryl Streep's portrayal of the Iron Lady is already taking the sliver screen by storm. Now the cut-and-thrust of the 1980s hits...
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How we made: Max Stafford-Clark and Lesley Manville on Top Girls was amended at the request of Max Stafford-Clark. In the original interview piece, he recollected that playwright Caryl Churchill first wrote the opening scene in Top Girls in the form of...
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Of the coming season he says: "These plays fulfil the 'Silo challenge' in that people have a really good time but they still leave the theatre with something to think or talk about or with something that stays with them." First up is Top Girls, Caryl...
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The Calvin Harris collaboration is the biggest hit for a woman since Beyonce spent 10 weeks at the summit with Irreplaceable in 2006 and 2007. Also racking up 10 weeks at the top Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life, Physical by Olivia Newton-John and...
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His mix for us today juxtaposes the familiar and unfamiliar, maintaining the narcotic yet wistful vibe that characterises his own productions. The mix also features a new Top Girls jam, his latest single “It's Over”, in which over near-ecstatic...
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I had left school at 16, gone to stage school – and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called Grownups, which went out on the BBC and overnight this new career opened up. The Royal...
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Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It depicts the life of Marlene, a hard-bitten career woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency, and her interactions with her family she left behind. Marlene left her working class background to pursue financial success, leaving her illegitimate child with her apparently infertile... Full Article
