Top Girls - 2019 - 7/10
In the first act, a clutch of strong women meet for lunch in a celestial fern bar.
Pope Joan, Isabella Bird, Dull Gret, Patient Griselda, Lady Niho.
Most talk of lovers, children they had (and lost), navigating the masculine world.
As they grow more inebriated, conversations often touch on tragedies, though mirth abides.
Act Two switches to 1981, Thatcher England, where opportunities for women are opening.
Good and bad, as women can now be a callous and cruel as men.
The first half definitely funnier, the second carries an unexpected poignant tone, as we live through an era where woman’s rights are being chipped away by fearful men.