I just finished Michael Frayn’s Headlong, a novel given to me by a friend. She and I saw “Top Girls” on Broadway last year, and we were both intrigued by Dulle Griet, one of the characters in the play, and the namesake of one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s more bizarre paintings. Headlong is an [...]
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“Top Girls” Out of Step
Posted in Performance, Popular Culture, Theater, tagged Caryl Churchill, feminism, feminist, James Macdonald, Martha Plimpton, Second Wave Feminism, Third Wave Feminism, Top Girls on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just before it closed, I caught Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of “Top Girls,” by British playwright Caryl Churchill. I’d read several favorable or semi-favorable articles and reviews of the play, but it wasn’t until WNYC’s Leonard Lopate interviewed Martha Plimpton about her experience playing Pope Joan and Angie that I was persuaded to buy a [...]
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