Critic Reviews (10)
Lyndsey Turner’s high-spec production...pulls out the stops in terms of cast-size...and visually... but... I felt I’d been watching an absorbing but hardly exhilarating and on-the-button museum piece.'
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Top Girls remains an important, forever relevant and still surprising play, even in a production that doesn't always hit its marks...Turner's new production slightly mutes some of its impact with designer trickery.'
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Lyndsey Turner’s overstretched, underpowered revival... there’s the difficulty of the notoriously wide Lyttelton stage...since comedy loves small spaces both focus and laughs are lost.'
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...much as I love Churchill’s play, a big theatre and an epic cast do it few favours...It’s still a wonderful piece but at times it seems as if we’re watching three separate plays.'
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Dazzlingly perceptive... Enjoyable high-definition revival of Caryl Churchill's 1982 feminist classic...Churchill tells this story with... a marvelously mischievous sense of theatre form.'
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A work of genius that will never date... Directed by Lyndsey Turner, Top Girls has never seemed more hilarious, or wrenching.'
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Lyndsey Turner’s lavish production could make more of the dreamlike surrealism of this occasion... Crucially, Churchill’s playfulness still comes across, and so does her anger.'
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On paper this production has so much going for it, including a great cast and Olivier award-winning director...but... much of it felt as flat as a deflated shoulder pad.'
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