Caryl Churchill: A dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing...a playwright of genuine audacity & assurance able to use her considerable wit & intelligence in ways at once unusual resonant & dramatically riveting Benedict Nightingale New Statesman Ms Churchill is one of our best writers...her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme Bryan Robertson Spectator Set in the early Thatcher years Top Girls is a serminal play of the modern theatre revealing a world of womens experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical & modern characters in a continuous conversation across ages & generations Top Girls was hailed as the best British play ever by a woman dramatist (Guardian). Commentary & notes by Bill Naismith & Nick Worrall