Category Archives: caryl churchill
A Stage full of Top Girls and Some Lunasea
top girls Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls was written in 1982, at a time when Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, had driven the country into a deep recession, raised taxes and saw the unemployment levels spike … Continue reading
More from Cloud 9
The Mirvish production of Cloud 9, playing at the Panasonic Theatre until February 21st, has a fantastic, interactive website, with all sorts of neat features and additional information about the play, the playwright and the artists involved in the creation … Continue reading
Cloud 9: A Comedy of Multiple Orgasms
blair williams and ann-marie macdonald There’s a quote from Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye where he says, “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the … Continue reading
Top Girls: You’re the Top! You’re Napoleon Brandy
British playwright Caryl Churchill said in an essay that she published in 1960, “playwrights don’t give answers, they ask questions.” Her play Top Girls, which was recently revived by Soulpepper Theatre, definitely provides the framework to encourage some tough- yet … Continue reading
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