About this title: Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert" (Sunday Times); Fen scrutinises the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy" (Financial Times) while ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: A&C Black
Date Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN-13:9780413622709ISBN:0413622703
Description: Good. Cover has lite rubbing, marking, and corner/edge wear, with lite crease on front. Pages are very clean and neat. Nice reading copy.1996 9th Printing Edition, Softcover. (L) read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Was a bit disappointed in "Top Girls." Act I was reminiscent of "A Voice of My Own" by Elinor Jones. That first Act also didn't seem to flow well into the structure of the rest of the play. Perhaps it's better in performance.
Loved "Fen." I was in a production of it in grad school. Really lovely, haunting, beautiful play."
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