Top Girls
Marlene marks her promotion to managing director of an employment agency with a restaurant dinner for five guests out of history and painting, a Victorian traveler, a ninth-century pope, a thirteenth-century Japanese court concubine turned nun, Bruegel's Dull Gret, and Chaucer's obedient Griselda, who talk across one another about the children and husbands they gave up. Later scenes put her in the office grading women on their prospects, and in a back yard and kitchen in Suffolk where her sister is raising a slow teenage girl called Angie who is failing at school. Churchill's anatomy of what a woman pays for success in the first Thatcher years, and the play that made overlapping dialogue standard equipment in British theater.
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- alludes to ↑ The Canterbury Tales
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