The Way to Break the Ice; Top Girls, Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow 4/5
The Herald › February 09, 2004
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Theatre Goodness only knows what the small but noisy band of toffee munchers, whisperers, mobile phone users and toilet attendees scattered about the first night audience for Caryl Churchill's post- Thatcherite epic of female aspiration and emancipation thought they'd come along to. Such is the dubious drawing power of a TV face - in this case, the perfectly capable Daniela Nardini - that they appeared to believe they'd stumbled upon a cross between a 1980s revival show and a hen night.
More fool them, for Churchill's play is a big, serious sprawl through a crucial moment of late-twentieth-century history, when a female prime minister appropriated broad-shouldered machismo to change the world, and a generation of smart young women put off by feminism's apparent dowdiness swooned at such a role model.See the full content of this document
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The Way to Break the Ice; Top Girls, Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow 4/5
As did Nardini's Marlene, the power-dressed, upwardly mobile "ballbreaker" from the Top Girls Employment Agency, who...
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