Top Girls

This play was interesting in a lot of ways. I liked how it started it off with strong women from throughout different cultures. Gret was absolutely hilarious because I felt like she was so old and out of it, but she was a strong feminist at heart. I also liked Joan just because she got away with pretending to be the pope, I'm sorry but that is all sorts of badass. The first scene was obviously there to show the differences between submissive women and strong women who don't let men hinder their success. They were all very interesting women. I didn't think the whole play was going to be about Marlene and the positive/ negative aspects of her success. Her daughter Angie actually quite scared me at times. She was thick but murderous for something she would never achieve. I still wonder if she ended up killing Joyce. I honestly liked the fight in the last scene with Joyce and Marlene because that underlined the whole point of the play: the women who don't care for the power and those women that do. I loved Marlene's character for her ballsy ways and getting things done, but she didn't have anything else to live for, which in the end saddens me. She obviously won't be able to help Angie, much less take care of her. I would've loved to know what happened after the play ended.