SOURCE: "Fen, New Work By Caryl Churchill," in The New York Times, 31 May 1983, p. 10.

The Joint Stock production of Fen debuted in London in February 1983 and played at the Almeida Theatre until March, when it began a tour that included a run at New York's Public Theatre. In the following New York production review. Rich asserts that although the play is "at times the most off-putting" of Churchill's works, it is nevertheless "another confirmation that its author possesses one of the boldest theatrical imaginations to emerge in this decade. "

Fen, the new Caryl Churchill play at the Public, could well be called Bottom Girls. As the author's Top Girls told of Marlene, a self-made businesswoman who sells out her provincial working-class roots and humanity for corporate success in London, so the new one examines the less privileged sisters such top girls leave behind. The characters of Fen are...