a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill
continuing with my fancy with plays. This one was quite interesting focusing on women that have succeeded in becoming top girls more or less. There's Pope Joan, the only woman who managed to become pope because she was in disguise... up to a point, Dull Gret who posed for Pieter Breughel for "Dull Griet", Lady Nijo the Japanese concubine, Patient Griselda, one of Chaucer's topics in the Canterbury Tales and Isabella Bird, a Victorian traveller.
Actually, more attention is paid to Marlene who comes into opposition to her sister, Joyce. Marlene is more like the tough business woman, resembling the patriarchal figure a lot with emphasis on reason rather than on feelings. She gives greater importance to individualism and survival of the fittest women while Joyce is more of a socialist caring about the weak. And it all takes place in the 80s when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister.
also came across a new technique I haven't seen before; But I prefer Tom Stoppard till now. Well, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee... The rest comes right after. And Eugene Ionesco. And David Hare, but mostly because he wrote something I was very interested in ("The Judas Kiss")
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