Caryl Churchill's Top girls / by Tycer, Alicia

Subjects: “…Churchill, Caryl. Top girls.…”
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Top girls / by Churchill, Caryl

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Top girls / by Churchill, Caryl

Top girls / by Churchill, Caryl

Plays : 2 / by Churchill, Caryl

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Mythic women/real women : plays and performance pieces by women /

Table of Contents: “…Top girls (extract) /…”

David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross : text and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Marxist child's play of Mamet's tough guys and Churchills's top girls /…”

The Methuen book of modern drama /

Table of Contents: “…Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- Hysteria / Terry Johnson -- Blasted / Sarah Kane -- Shopping and fucking / Mark Ravenhill -- The beauty queen of Leenane / Martin McDonagh.…”

Classic plays by women : from 1600 to 2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Paphnutius (extract) / Hrotswitha -- The tragedy of Mariam (extract) / Elizabeth Cary -- The rover / Aphra Benn -- A bold stroke for a wife / Susanna Centlivre -- De Monfort / Joanna Baillie -- Rutherford and Son / Githa Sowerby -- The chalk garden / Enid Bagnold -- Top girls (extract) / Caryl Churchill -- Stones in his pockets / Marie Jones.…”

Caryl Churchill / by Luckhurst, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Transformations: the long Sixties -- Stage work in the 1970s. key production: Cloud nine -- Thatcherism, the New Right, and the 1980s. key production: Top girls -- Revolution and cross-art form experiments, 1990-2000. key production: Mad forest -- Cross-art form collaborations and far away -- Churchill in the 21st century. key production: A number -- Afterword.…”

Clever girls and the literature of women's upward mobility / by Eagleton, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The language of upward mobility -- Escaping origins -- Relative values : career, marriage, maternity -- Troublesome bodies -- New forms, new selves -- "Top girls" and other epithets -- "The haves" and "the have-nots" -- Coda : Phantom feminism.…”

At the Village Vanguard /

Table of Contents: “…By the bend of the river -- Ego -- Body and soul -- Heart and soul -- Surrey with the fringe on top -- Girl talk -- I didn't know what time it was -- All the things you are - - I could write a book -- The sun died -- Please do something.…”
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File on Churchill / by Fitzsimmons, Linda, 1949-

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The theatre of Caryl Churchill / by Gobert, R. Darren

Table of Contents: “…Preface and acknowledgements: The theatre of Caryl Churchill -- Churchill's landscapes : Top girls ; The Skriker ; Far away -- Derivatives; or capitalism and the theatre : Owners ; Serious money: A city comedy ; A dream play -- Identity and the body : Cloud Nine ; Icecream (with or without Hot Fudge) ; A number -- The aesthetics and politics of collaboration : Light shining in Buckinghamshire ; Fen ; Mad forest: a play from Romania -- Performance and/as theatre : Traps ; Blue heart ; Love and information -- Other critical perspectives : The 'Picasso' of modern British playwrights / Elaine Aston ; 'The times' of Caryl Churchill's theatre / Siân Adiseshiah -- Epilogue: Exit the author.…”
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Upstaging Big Daddy : directing theater as if gender and race matter /

Table of Contents: “…Women, woman, and the subject of feminism : feminist directions / Esther Beth Sullivan -- Encountering Dora : putting theory into practice / Jeanie Forte and Christine Sumption -- The split subject of Blood relations / Susan Clement and Esther Beth Sullivan -- Top girls and the politics of representation / Juli Thompson Burk -- Black text, white director : issues of race and gender in directing African-American drama / Ellen Donkin -- Strategies for subverting the canon / Gay Gibson Cima -- Ways of looking at Agnes de Castro (1695) : a lesbian history play at WOW Cafe / Kendall -- Resisting the birth mark : subverting Hawthorne in a feminist theory play / Gayle Austin -- Split Britches and the Alcestis lesson : ("What is this albatross") / Sabrina Hamilton -- Wearing red : when a rowdy band of charismatics learned to say "NO!" …”

Stages of drama : classical to contemporary theater /

Table of Contents: “…The Lesson / Eugaene Ionesco -- Endgame / Samuel Beckett -- The Zoo story / Edward Albee -- Dutchman / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- The Homecoming / Harold Pinter -- Fefu and her friends / Maria Irene Fornes -- Spell #7 / Ntozake Shange -- "Master Harold" and the boys / Athol Fugard -- Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- Fool for love / Sam Shepard -- 'Night mother / Marcha Norman -- Ma Rainey's Black bottom / August Wilson -- M. …”

Types of drama : plays and contexts /

Table of Contents: “…/ Dario Fo -- Pantomime / Derek Walcott -- Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- The real thing / Tom Stoppard -- True west / Sam Shepard -- Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet -- Terminal / Susan Yankowitz and Joseph Chaikin -- The dance and the railroad / David Henry Hwang -- Fences / August Wilson -- The conduct of life / Maria Irene Fornes -- Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith -- Angels in America, part one : The millennium approaches / Tony Kushner -- In the blood / Suzan-Lori Parks.…”

Text & presentation, 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Hill -- Critical mimesis : investigating gender roles with Ellen Terry / Lauren Love -- Spectacles in terpsichorean disrobing : antecedents and ideologies of the striptease / Michael Schwartz -- Menagerie à trois : surrogate love in The glass menagerie / Graley Herren -- Reconsidering surrealist drama : the case of Nanos Valaoritis' Round tables / Vassiliki Rapti -- Narrative discontinuity and identity in Greek old comedy and the American concept musical / John Given -- Views, values and worship : religion and social class in the plays of Romulus Linney / John Fleming -- Deviant speech : understanding Churchill's use of feminine linguistics in Top girls / Melody Schneider -- Adrienne Kennedy's deadly parts : pictures, portraits, and plays / Johanna Frank -- Faces of contemporary Turkish-German Kabarett / Erol Boran -- Oedipus in New York : Greek tragedy and Edward Albee's The goat, or, who is Sylvia? …”
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The degree generation : the making of unequal graduate lives / by Ingram, Nicola

Table of Contents: “…Gender, Capital and Male-Dominated Fields -- Introduction -- Different gender, different career aspirations and outcomes -- The (gendered) field of engineering -- 'Engineering capital': symbolically recognized capital in the engineering field -- Marcus: being the right person in the right place in the field of engineering -- Jennifer: a female space invader in the male-dominated field of engineering -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Intersections of Class and Gender in the Making of 'Top Boys' in the Finance Sector -- Introduction -- 'Top girls' and 'top boys' -- Aspirations, opportunities and capacities to become 'top boys' in the finance sector: the workings of social class -- Nathan: consolidating class advantage -- Harvey: working his way back into the middle class -- Leo: a career in finance as a route to security -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Following Dreams and Temporary Escapes: The Impacts of Cruel Optimism -- Introduction -- Aspirations of the 'degree generation' -- Jasmine's story: cruel optimism and broken dreams.…”
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All I want is loving you : popular female singers of the 1950s / by Bergsman, Steve