Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

Alicia Tycer is teaching at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently completing her PhD on Contemporary Women Playwrights at the Royal Court Theatre from 1994-2000.

• Series Preface; 1. Background; 2. Top Girls: analysis and commentary; 3. Production analysis; 4. Performance History; 5. Workshopping Top Girls; Conclusion; Timeline; Further Reading; References; Index.

"A comprehensive and insightful approach...Tycer's commentary and analysis; reception and production histories, and practical ideas for understanding the play combine to persuade and to explicate Top Girls as 'still without significant equal in the feminist or mainstream canons'" - Professor Elaine Aston, Lancaster University, UK