Caryl Churchill – författare

Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of ''Top Girls'' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, led a crowd of women on a charge through hell; Pope Joan - the transvestite early female pope and last but not least Patient Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales. As the evening continues we are involved with the stories of all five women and the impending crisis in Marlene''s own life. A classic of contemporary theatre, Churchill''s play is seen as a landmark for a new generation of playwrights. It was premiered by the Royal Court in 1982.

"Top Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind." (John Peter, Sunday Times)

"A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" Independent

Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill''s most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham''s production, writing to say that "This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated".

This student edition contains a chronology of the playwright''s life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play, a discussion of the various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.

"A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" Independent

Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill''s most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham''s production, writing to say that "This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated".

This student edition contains a chronology of the playwright''s life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play, a discussion of the various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.

Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of ''Top Girls'' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, led a crowd of women on a charge through hell; Pope Joan - the transvestite early female pope and last but not least Patient Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales. As the evening continues we are involved with the stories of all five women and the impending crisis in Marlene''s own life. A classic of contemporary theatre, Churchill''s play is seen as a landmark for a new generation of playwrights. It was premiered by the Royal Court in 1982.

"Top Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind." (John Peter, Sunday Times)