Churchill, Caryl

Born in London, 1938, Churchill had some early acclaim with radio plays like "The Ants" (1962), "not not not not not enough oxygen "(1971) and "Schreber's Nervous Illness "(1972). However, it was through contact with feminism that she developed the language and structures to carry the complexity of her ideas. "Top Girls "(1982), perhaps Churchill's best play, keenly predicted the rise of bourgeois 'post-feminism' in the Thatcherite 1980s, raising stimulating questions, notably in its tour de force opening where the stories of six women from history overlap, clash and connect over a restaurant