Top Girls
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- In Caryl Churchill
…she won another Obie with Top Girls (1982), which deals with women losing their humanity in order to attain power in a male-dominated environment. Softcops (produced 1984), a surreal play set in 19th-century France, about government attempts to depoliticize illegal acts, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Serious Money…
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- In Caryl Churchill
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- Blanchett
- In Cate Blanchett: Early life and career
…Theatre Company in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timothy Daly’s Kafka Dances. In 1993 she starred opposite Geoffrey Rush in David Mamet’s Oleanna, as a student who accuses her teacher of sexual harassment.
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- In Cate Blanchett: Early life and career
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- In Linda Hunt
…playing Joan of Arc in Little Victories and Pope Joan in Top Girls. She won praise for her performance in the title role of a 1984 staging by the Boston Shakespeare Company of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, and she was nominated for a Tony Award for her…
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- In Linda Hunt