ATLANTA -- The Playmakers of Oglethorpe University present “Top Girls” by contemporary British playwright Caryl Churchill, directed by Dr. Deborah Merola. From a fantastic opening dinner party with women guests from across history, literature, and art, to a searing conversation between two sisters in a working class kitchen, this play both entertains and provokes debate about the “proper” role of women.

Set in 1980’s England, “Top Girls” revolves around the Top Girls employment agency, run by Marlene, a smart, ambitious woman and a “smashing bird,” and her sister Joyce, who lives in the countryside working as a housecleaner and raising a daughter, Angie. The contrast between Marlene’s professional world and Joyce’s domestic world uncovers women’s continuing tension between career and family. Set-up by the wildly entertaining opening dinner party scene, wherein Marlene hosts five prominent female figures who talk across time and each other, Caryl Churchill questions traditional gender roles and the cost of success to women. She comes up with no easy answers.
 

“Top Girls”
Conant Performing Arts Center
March 3-5, 2005
8 p.m. each night
Tickets: $5 for off-campus guests. Free with Oglethorpe ID.
Seating limited, reservations recommended.
For ticket information call (404) 504-1074.