Bu çalışma, Caryl Churchill'in Zirvedeki Kızlar oyunundaki birkaç kadının anılarına ve yaşamlarına değiniyor. Çağdaş İngiliz oyun yazarı Churchill genellikle tarih konuları ve anılar üzerine eser üreten bir oyun yazarı olarak algılanır. Bundan dolayı Churchill'in Zirvedeki Kızlar'ı, İngiliz tarihinin hayati bir dönüm noktasında bulunan kadın anılarının ve deneyimlerinin geçmişten günümüze ustalıkla anlatıldığı özgün bir tiyatro oyunudur. Eser, yakın bir zamanda "Zirvedeki Kızlar" çalışma ofisinin başına geçen Marlene'nin düzenlediği bir kutlama partisi ile açılır. Onun konukları ise geçmiş hakkında belgesel nitelikte bilgi veren beş kadın olan travesti bir Papa, bir metres, kararlı bir kâşif, Chaucer'den saygılı bir eş ve Bruegel tablosundan öncü bir savaşçıdır. Bu gösterişli açılış sahnesinde sunulan eylemci kadın konuları ve anılar söz konusu çağdaş oyunun sonuna dek yankılanır. Kutlama sırasında, her konuk geçmiş anılarını anlatırken, diğer misafirler konuşmacının sözlerini engellemeye çalışırlar. Bu çerçevede, Churchill'in Zirvedeki Kızlar’ında, tüm kadınların anıları sefalet, talihsizlik ve derin üzüntüyü içerir. Churchill böylelikle kadın sorunlarını sahneye koyar ve onlar için var olan olumsuz uygulamaları irdeleyerek onları düzeltmeye çalışır. İkinci- dalga feminist yazarı Churchill ayrıca "Zirvedeki Kızlar" bürosunun iş ortamını kullanarak birkaç farklı çalışan kadının anı ve yaşamlarını da gözler önüne serer. Oyun, kadın haklarına ilişkin karmaşık soruşturmaları, başarıya giden yolda aile bağlarından feragat etmenin zorunluluğunu da betimler. Böylece Zirvedeki Kızlar’ın teorik çerçevesi olan kadınların anıları aracılığıyla kadın-erkek arasındaki eşitsizlik Churchill’in oyununda ustalıkla dile getirilir.

This study represents the memories and lives of several women inCaryl Churchill’s Top Girls. Contemporary English playwright Churchillis regularly considered as a dramatist who composes on chronicled topicsand memories. Thus, Churchill's Top Girls is an original play of thecutting edge theatre, uncovering a universe of women’s memories andrecollections with a vital crossroad in British history. The play opens witha supper party facilitated by Marlene, the recently advanced chief of the'Top Girls' work office. Her visitors are five women who give documentaryinformation about the past: a transvestite pope, a mistress, a resoluteexplorer, a respectful wife from Chaucer, and the pioneer of a surge intohellfire from a Bruegel painting. The women's activist topics presented bythis clamorous scene reverberate all through the more contemporaryactivity of the play. Besides, as a second-wave feminist writer, Churchilluses the setting of the 'Top Girls' office to permit a look into the memoriesand lives of a few altogether different working women. The play alsodescribes complex inquiries concerning a woman's rights which copiesforceful, onerous conduct, and achievement that must be accomplishedby surrendering family binds to drive a path to the top. In that event, theinequality between men and women, which is the theoretical frameworkof Top Girls, is articulated through the memories of women in Churchill’splay. century. Caryl moved to Canada with her family when she was nine yearsold, but in 1956 she returned to England to continue her education.Churchill began writing plays when she was a student at OxfordUniversity in 1959. Caryl, who married after graduating from college,brought three children to the world. Due to the intense housework sheexperienced, Churchill could only write short plays that were broadcastedon BBC radio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and also joined inpolitical and experimental theatre groups in those years. After growingup her sons, Churchill began to write stage plays by finding opportunitiesto work in a more favourable environment. In 1972, it was Owners-thefirst professional stage play that made Churchill successful in front ofaudiences and critics. However, it's Top Girls which made the playwrightfamous out of England. Caryl Churchill's three-act Top Girls was firststaged on August 28, 1982 at the Royal Court Theatre in London andlater in New York. With this work, Churchill became one of the mostimportant playwrights of the 1980s.Marlene is the focus character of Top Girls in the middle of the1980s, and the events in the play are portrayed in the context of herlifestyle. In a male-dominated world, she achieved great success with herfemale identity and became a manager in the "Top Girls" job andemployment agency. Marlene, who organizes a celebration for thissuccess, invites five women from various periods of history. At the famousopening scene of modern theatre, Isabella Bird, Pope Joan, Lady Nijo,Dull Gret and Patient Griselda are Marlene's guests. During this highlycelebrated celebration, the invited women tell stories about their past.Later in the play, interviews are held with various women who are lookingfor a job in Marlene's work environment. The last part of Top Girls goesback a year from nowadays in Marlene's hometown. Here, therelationship with Marlene’s sister Joyce and Angie’s reality are declaredto the audience.Top Girls starts on a Saturday at a restaurant because Marlene isnow a manager in the "Top Girls" job agency and will celebrate for thatreason. The first guest to join the dinner is Isabella Bird, a Scottishwoman who lived between 1831 and 1904. Isabella travelled intensivelybetween the ages of forty and seventies, and expresses her conflicts withher sister, Hennie, her pastor father, her sicknesses, and her religiousbeliefs. Shortly after, while Marlene and Isabella are speaking Lady Nijocomes in. This woman was a concubine of the Japanese Emperor in thethirteenth century, but later she continued her life as a Buddhist monk.Nijo emphasized that she was offered to other men after the rape of theemperor when she was only fourteen. Apart from these, Nijo also referredto her four children, her lovers and her father. Soon after the other guestsalso join to Marlene’s celebration and tell about their memories.The scene at the end of the play goes back a year before today anddemonstrates the talks about past between Marlene and her sister Joyce.While the two sisters were communicating, it is emphasized that theirmother had an infamous life because of their alcoholic and overbearingfather. Marlene expressed that in the past she gave birth to an out-of-marriage baby, and this girl named Angie was raised by Joyce.Contemporary British playwright, Caryl Churchill, is known for herimmense plays about women. Among the world's most interesting authors, Churchill has an important influence on individuals of all ages.In recent years, the writer has managed to take her place among the mostunique and powerful voices of modern theatre. However, the three-actplay of Caryl Churchill focuses on the memoirs of various women inhistory and art, as well as how the play's heroine Marlene progresses inthe profession, especially during the first act. More importantly,Marlene's dinner celebration scenes convey Churchill's skilful ability toremark the memories of the invited characters.During the celebration, each guest tells her past memories, whilethe other guests try to prevent the words of the speaker. To summarize,in Churchill's Top Girls, the memories of all women include misery,misfortune and deep sadness. In this way, Churchill puts on the stagethe problems of women and attempts to correct them by examining thenegative practices that exist for them.