They chatter on about their lives, their dialogue overlapping, their words often indecipherable since they rarely listen to each other.
Isabella Bird (1831 - 1904) an intrepid traveller who abandoned her life in Scotland where she had looked after her clergyman father and journeyed through Australia, the Sandwich Islands, Tibet, China, the American Rockies and, when over 70, Morocco.Dull Gret, a figure in a Breughel painting who led a female charge through Hell and gave the devils "such a beating".Lady Nijo, a medieval Japanese courtesan who, when she fell out of favour with the Emperor, became a Buddhist nun and travelled the country on foot for twenty years: "The first half of my life was all sin, the second all repentance".Griselda, (from Chaucer's 'The Clerk's Tale') who accepted with remarkable submissiveness seemingly intolerable pressures put upon her by her husband.Pope Joan, thought to have been a woman disguised as a man who bore a child during her brief tenure as Pope in the ninth century.She has invited a witty quintet of historical and fictional women achievers: In a lively opening scene, Marlene, recently promoted managing director of Top Girls Employment Agency, throws a party to celebrate. The play jettisons the demands of strict naturalism. Top Girls focuses on the women who get what the feminists say they want: liberation from domesticity and child-bearing, the chance for success in the male enclave, the world of work.
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