c-Ville
“What does it mean to become a “top girl” in a culture of misogyny? What does it take to support other women while jockeying toward success? Can you make space for nuance and personal freedom without sacrificing one another?
Live Arts’ Top Girls doesn’t give you the answers. It only asks the uncomfortable questions. But at a time like this, when cultural crosstalk abounds, you ought to go and listen.”
Home grown (Cville Podcast)
“Gretchen York, Jess Kristensen, Claire Chandler, and director Betsy Tucker chime in on their processes, the issues of the play, and how Churchill’s Thatcher-inspired 80s play is still relevant today.”
Daily Progress
“A new production of the 1982 play at Live Arts sweeps audience members back to the Margaret Thatcher era in England and prompts reflection about how much has — and hasn’t — changed in the intervening decades for women trying to balance their own dreams of career success, family satisfaction and feeling that they deserve the happiness they seek.”