Marlene only offers Jeanine two openings, one at a company that makes knitwear and the other lampshades - neither of which fulfill Jeanine's request for opportunities and travel.
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Through her questions, Marlene reveals that she looks down on Jeanine for her desire to get married young, have children, and her uncertainty about her professional future. Marlene is interviewing a woman named Jeanine who wants a new job because there are no prospects for advancement at her current position. These women are bound together by their struggles against patriarchy and oppression - and Marlene relates to each of them differently.Īct 2 is set at the Top Girls employment agency. This scene is surreal, because Marlene's 5 dinner guests are female figures from different historical eras: Isabella Bird a 19th century writer and traveler, Lady Nijo a 13th century courtesan and later, Buddhist nun, Dull Gret the subject of a Brueghel painting who led an army of women into hell to fight the devils, Pope Joan a 9th century woman who disguised herself as a man and became Pope, and Patient Griselda the obedient wife from The Clerk's Tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Act I of Top Girls takes place in a hip London restaurant where Marlene is gathering five other women to celebrate her promotion to managing director of Top Girls, the employment agency where she works.
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