Set during the Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British history. It questions the notions of 'success' when it comes to women's identities...

Mad Forest von Churchill, Caryl

Special edition hardbacks celebrating sixty years of Methuen Drama's "Modern Plays" series, with the selections chosen by public vote due to their enduring cultural importance. Each features a new foreword. von Churchill, Caryl

Newest work by one of Britain's most influential playwrights. von Churchill, Caryl

At a restaurant party thrown by Marlene of the Top Girls Employment Agency are Isabella Bird, the 19th-century traveller, Lady Nijo, courtesan to a 13th-century Japanese Emperor, Brueghel's Dull Gret, Pope Joan and Patient Griselda, wife...

A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. von Churchill, Caryl