Following its sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre and triumphant West End transfer, Out Of Joint and Chichester Festival Theatre’s Top Girls comes to West Yorkshire Playhouse from 28 February – to 10 March.
Directed by Out Of Joint’s Artistic Director Max Stafford-Clark, this modern classic by Caryl Churchill is set in Thatcher’s England as hard-nosed, go-getting businesswoman Marlene is hosting a dinner party to celebrate her promotion to MD of the Top Girls Employment Agency.
Her guests are all powerful and eccentric women from myth and history, making for an extraordinary gathering, and one of the most famous and colourful scenes in modern theatre.
Top Girls takes us back in time through Marlene’s story, and the very different story of her sister who has stayed close to her roots in rural Suffolk, it becomes a provocative study of success, the compromises Marlene has made and, chillingly, what happens to those who get left behind.
Doc Martin star Caroline Catz in the lead role of Marlene and is best known for playing Louisa in five series of the twee Cornish medical drama, but she has worked with Out of Joint in Shopping and F**king and Chichester Festival Theatre in The Recruiting Officer.
The cast is completed by Helen Bradbury, Alix Dunmore, Esther Ruth Elliott, Victoria Gee, Emmy Sainsbury and Kirsten Hazel Smith.