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2018 - 2019  Alumnae ​Season
The Importance of Being Earnest
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Top Girls

BY CARYL CHURCHILL
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Produced by Lori Delorme, Tina McCulloch
Directed by Alysa Golden


January 18 - February 2, 2019  on the Mainstage

Top Girls
Marlene is throwing a dinner party to celebrate her promotion at Top Girls Temp Agency. Her guests? Five powerful wonder women from the historical past. Marlene strives to join their ranks, and does - but at what cost? 
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Caryl Churchill's magical yet realistic play, brilliantly dramatizes the timeless quest to define success and women's struggle to achieve it. 
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​Top Girls

Watch the Trailer Video Below:
Trailer by Nicholas Porteous
Reviews 

"Sharp-witted, illuminating..." 
"Lovely work all around from this considerable, all-female cast..."
"Golden’s theatrical, multimedia staging is both technically effective and dramatically compelling...
"
LIFE WITH MORE COWBELL

"Top Girls is a timely important work that brings women’s voices to the forefront."
MOONEY ON THEATRE
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Top Girls
Cast & Production Team

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Top Girls · Special Events

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Opening Night Celebration
Fri. January 18, 2019

​After the show,  join our cast and crew in Alumnae's Lobby to celebrate the Opening Night of  TOP  GIRLS. 
​Enjoy complimentary tasty treats.
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Panel Discussion "Women, Power and Success in the Age of Me Too". ​
Thurs. January 24, 2019  6:30 pm 

Before the  performance of  TOP  GIRLS.  And our Panelists include: 
· JENN ENGELS 
Award-winning Television Writer/Producer
· HANNAH THEVAPALAN  Project Manager at WSP Canada
· MICHELLE WINTERS  Award-winning Writer, Painter 
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JENN ENGELS
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HANNAH THEVAPALAN
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MICHELLE WINTERS
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Director/Cast Talkback
​Sun. January 27, 2019

​We pull back the curtain and discuss what goes on"behind the scenes"...
After the Matinee performance of  TOP  GIRLS.
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B L O G
​Top Girls' Profile: 
Isabella Bird
“M​aking Wonder Woman, Lara Croft and Buffy look like wimps”
by Diane Forrest
If you’re making a list of the coolest Victorian women, Isabella Bird is right up there — riding huge stallions through the desert, reporting from war zones, and bunking down and escaping from burning buildings... Read More
​MORE TOP GIRLS' PROFILES:
“Scandal at the Japanese court” (Lady Nijo)
“Everyone Loves A Happy Ending” (Griselda)
“Woman Storms Hell” (Dull Gret)
“The Pope Is A Woman” (Pope Joan)
Book your tickets now.
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  • HOME
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  • INFORMATION
    • Contact Us
    • Board of Directors
    • About Us
    • Anti-Racism Statement
    • Safe & Respectful
    • Accessibility
    • News & Media
    • Open House
    • CURRENT SEASON >
      • Female of the Species 2022
      • Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike 2023
      • String of Pearls 2023
      • FireWorks Festival 2022
      • New Ideas Festival 2023
    • PREVIOUS SEASONS >
      • 2021/22 SEASON >
        • Albertine in Five Times
        • Nested
        • In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
        • New Ideas Festival 2022 >
          • NIF 2022 Master Classes
          • NIF 2022 Talks
          • NIF 2022 Short Plays >
            • B to Z
            • Joule's Odyssey
            • Cancel Culture
            • The Do-Gooders
          • NIF 2022 Workshops
      • 2020/21 Season >
        • New Ideas Festival >
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 2
      • 2019/20 Season >
        • The Heidi Chronicles
        • FireWorks Festival >
          • Belle Darling Klondike Queen
          • Grief Circus
          • If the Shoe Fits
        • The Trip to Bountiful
        • New Ideas Festival 2020
        • New Ideas Festival 2020 WEEK 1
      • 2018/19 Season >
        • The Importance of Being Earnest
        • Fireworks Festival 2018 >
          • The Pigeon
          • Moving On
          • Animal
        • Top Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2019 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 3
        • Impressionism
        • News - 100 Year Open House 2018
      • 100th Anniversary 2017/18 Season >
        • Thirteen Hands
        • FireWorks Festival 2017 >
          • This Will Be Our Last Transmission
          • Surrender, Dorothy
          • GASH
        • Omission
        • New Ideas Festival 2018 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 3
          • 2018 Reading Series
        • Queen Marie
      • 2016/17 Season >
        • THIS
        • FireWorks Festival 2016 >
          • Inked Heart
          • Motherland
        • The Gut Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2017 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 3
        • The Clean House >
          • The Creases In My Sari
      • 2015/16 Season >
        • Antigone
        • FireWorks Festival 2015 >
          • Divine Wrecks
          • Cottage Radio
          • Radical
          • Playwright Intensive 2015
        • Stepping Out
        • New Ideas Festival 2016 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 3
        • August: Osage County
      • 2014/15 Season >
        • Escape From Happiness
        • FireWorks Festival 2014 >
          • Burying Toni
          • You Have To Earn It
          • Playwright Intensive 2014
        • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 1
        • Blood Relations
        • New Ideas Festival 2015 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 2
          • I am Marguerite
          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 3
    • Blog