PUTNEY — The Apron Theater Company and Next Stage Arts Project present Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, directed by Hallie Flower.
Performances are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 16-19, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 23-25, and will be held at The Grammar School, 69 Hickory Ridge Road, while Next Stage undergoes renovations.
Playwright Caryl Churchill wrote this modern classic - still considered daring in construction and relevant some 30 years after first opening at London's Royal Court Theatre.
Katrina Spenceman (Marlene) leads the cast, joined by Dakota Benedetto, Julia Tadlock, Keely Eastley, Bryn Austin, Kenzie Klem, Bridget McBride, Maeve Campman, and Louise Krieger.
It is the dawn of Thatcher's England and Marlene has just crawled above the glass ceiling. She has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. Her party is an extraordinary dinner attended by women of legend or history who drink and eat much while asserting their stories of success and sacrifice.
Through the doubling of roles, these women are next seen as co-workers, clients, and relatives. We enter both the unforgiving world of affluence Marlene ascends into and the equally unforgiving one of poverty she escaped from.
The Apron Theater Company was founded by Karla Baldwin and Hallie Flower, and is the Next Stage Arts Project's “theater-company-in-residence.”