Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls begins with a dazzling dinner party for an eclectic array of historical and mythical “top girls,” including a Japanese courtesan turned Buddhist nun, Pope Joan, and Dull Gret, a 16th Century woman who battles the devil. After this brilliant opening, the play explores the choices modern women face in the workforce, culminating in a blistering and timely argument between two sisters over the politics of the right vs. left. Written during England’s Thatcher administration, Top Girls is consistently voted as one of the best plays of the 20th Century.

The first production of the Theatre Department's season, directed by Patricia Riggin.