Top Girls

Crash blackouts conceal each scene change so we feel.like we are jumping from one place to the next. The dinnet party looks like a Chinese banquet room but all the food is white. The Wild Swan orders Waldorf salad. Each self obsessed but the dialogue feels so natural. Overlapping, some times repeated stories intertwined and unique. Gret stealing potatoes for later and describing the descent into hell to kill devils. Drunk Victorian lady stripping it all of to be free. Pope Joan killing the mood with her death. The theft of children and the despair of men every being or doing something kind. Then it all ends in drunkenness. Black

Cut to our host recruiting with all the worst of decisions on display. Black. Cut to her neice hiding in the garden from her mum with a friend much younger than get but yet still more mature. The rain pours down as the shimmering party curtain descended. Black

Interval

Move into the office with the dinner host. Hitting all the sexist tropes in interview form somehow much worse cause its women saying them to other women. Each of the cast appears again in a different role. Strange flip to class in final scene with the sister. 

Overall the performances were superb but the totally black transitions last too long to keep the flow going. Plus this feels so dated. It's white middle class feminism with all the tone deaf notes and poor portrayals of women who are different. Amazingly acted but otherwise flat.