SOURCE: "Wry Top Girls Is Hard to Top." in New York Post, 29 December 1982.

In the following review, Barnes deems the acting superb in the New York production and considers Churchill a "playwright to cherish and explore. "

Caryl Churchill's new play Top Girls starts with a strange meeting and ends with an odd encounter. It is a social comedy about women and politics, chiefly politics, and is as unexpected as you would expect from the author of Cloud Nine. It opened last night at the Newman Theater of Joseph Papp's Public Theater.

It is a production that has been bodily transported from London's Royal Court, where it was first staged last August. The original cast and staging are intact, and the production marks the beginning of an exchange arrangement between the Royal Court and the New York Shakespeare Theater. This seems a great idea.

Miss Churchill's very funny and...