Past Shows
Top Girls
"Crowded Fire's Top Girls has just about everything you want in a piece of theater."
— Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
"Crowded Fire...takes this 20-year-old script
and brings it to new life with stellar acting and impeccable timing."
— Anna Mantzaris, SF Gate
"Crowded Fire's...production is one of the
best things I've seen at the Exit Theatre"
— Erin Blackwell, S. F. Frontiers
"Director Rebecca Novick and her fine cast...[play]
this first scene — with its intricately intercut cross talk, complicated
tapestry of actions, and shimmering contrasts of discourse — as
the tour de force it was meant to be....Novick traces the play's thorny
obstacles subtly and honestly."
— Brad Rosenstein, S.F. Bay Guardian
Top Girls
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Rebecca Novick
played May – July,
2002 at the EXIT Stage Left, in San Francisco.
First
performed in London in 1982, Top Girls still offers an up-to-the-minute
examination of the difficulties and delights besetting women in power.
With guests ranging from Joan the female Pope, to a medieval Japanese
courtesan, to Marlene whose promotion through the glass ceiling starts
the party rolling, this is the dinner party of a lifetime: hilarious,
theatrical, and heartbreaking. A beloved Bay Area favorite, Caryl Churchill's
gentle but relentless explosion of the sacrifices women make to get ahead
makes for fascinating theater and unforgettable conversation.
Featuring: Cassie Beck, Katie Cronin, Linda Jones, Michele Leavy,
Mary Saudargas, Juliet Tanner, Mollena Williams
Scenic Design: Melpomene Katakalos
Costume Design: Jocelyn Leiser
Lighting Design: Jamie Mulligan
Sound Design: Badger Koon
Stage Manager: Brian Perkins
Assistant Stage Manager: Charmin King