Read Caryl Churchill's 'Top Girls' and discuss the importance of the restaurant scene in it.You will need to consider the scene's relationship to the rest of the play, the characters, the way in which Churchil uses dialogue and how the scene might be perf

... T M A O 6 'Read Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and discuss the importance of the restaurant scene in it. You will need to consider the scene's relationship to the rest of the play, the characters, the way in which Churchill uses dialogue and how the scene might be performed.' Caryl Churchill has been widely recognized as a leading 'socialist feminist' playwright. Top Girls is set in a very specific decade and political context: in the early 1980s, when Britain was ruled by women. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, seemed to represent the ultimate symbol of the capitalist 'superwoman' politician, who is clearly parallelized with a character in the play called Marlene, a symbol of the 1980s career woman, or 'superwoman' in Thatcher's Britain. Marlene seems to excel in all areas of life, public and private, professional and domestic, until of course it is revealed later in the

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