This study represents the memories and lives of several women in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. Contemporary English playwright Churchill is regularly considered as a dramatist who composes on chronicled topics and memories. Thus, Churchill's Top Girls is an original play of the cutting edge theatre, uncovering a universe of women’s memories and recollections with a vital crossroad in British history. The play opens with a supper party facilitated by Marlene, the recently advanced chief of the 'Top Girls' work office. Her visitors are five women who give documentary information about the past: a transvestite pope, a mistress, a resolute explorer, a respectful wife from Chaucer, and the pioneer of a surge into hellfire from a Bruegel painting. The women's activist topics presented by this clamorous scene reverberate all through the more contemporary activity of the play. Besides, as a second-wave feminist writer, Churchill uses the setting of the 'Top Girls' office to permit a look into the memories and lives of a few altogether different working women. The play also describes complex inquiries concerning a woman's rights which copies forceful, onerous conduct, and achievement that must be accomplished by surrendering family binds to drive a path to the top. In that event, the inequality between men and women, which is the theoretical framework of Top Girls, is articulated through the memories of women in Churchill’s play. century. Caryl moved to Canada with her family when she was nine years old, but in 1956 she returned to England to continue her education. Churchill began writing plays when she was a student at Oxford University in 1959. Caryl, who married after graduating from college, brought three children to the world. Due to the intense housework she experienced, Churchill could only write short plays that were broadcasted on BBC radio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and also joined in political and experimental theatre groups in those years. After growing up her sons, Churchill began to write stage plays by finding opportunities to work in a more favourable environment. In 1972, it was Owners-the first professional stage play that made Churchill successful in front of audiences and critics. However, it's Top Girls which made the playwright famous out of England. Caryl Churchill's three-act Top Girls was first staged on August 28, 1982 at the Royal Court Theatre in London and later in New York. With this work, Churchill became one of the most important playwrights of the 1980s. Marlene is the focus character of Top Girls in the middle of the 1980s, and the events in the play are portrayed in the context of her lifestyle. In a male-dominated world, she achieved great success with her female identity and became a manager in the "Top Girls" job and employment agency. Marlene, who organizes a celebration for this success, invites five women from various periods of history. At the famous opening scene of modern theatre, Isabella Bird, Pope Joan, Lady Nijo, Dull Gret and Patient Griselda are Marlene's guests. During this highly celebrated celebration, the invited women tell stories about their past. Later in the play, interviews are held with various women who are looking for a job in Marlene's work environment. The last part of Top Girls goes back a year from nowadays in Marlene's hometown. Here, the relationship with Marlene’s sister Joyce and Angie’s reality are declared to the audience. Top Girls starts on a Saturday at a restaurant because Marlene is now a manager in the "Top Girls" job agency and will celebrate for that reason. The first guest to join the dinner is Isabella Bird, a Scottish woman who lived between 1831 and 1904. Isabella travelled intensively between the ages of forty and seventies, and expresses her conflicts with her sister, Hennie, her pastor father, her sicknesses, and her religious beliefs. Shortly after, while Marlene and Isabella are speaking Lady Nijo comes in. This woman was a concubine of the Japanese Emperor in the thirteenth century, but later she continued her life as a Buddhist monk. Nijo emphasized that she was offered to other men after the rape of the emperor when she was only fourteen. Apart from these, Nijo also referred to her four children, her lovers and her father. Soon after the other guests also join to Marlene’s celebration and tell about their memories. The scene at the end of the play goes back a year before today and demonstrates the talks about past between Marlene and her sister Joyce. While the two sisters were communicating, it is emphasized that their mother had an infamous life because of their alcoholic and overbearing father. 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 her immense 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 most unique and powerful voices of modern theatre. However, the three-act play of Caryl Churchill focuses on the memoirs of various women in history and art, as well as how the play's heroine Marlene progresses in the profession, especially during the first act. More importantly, Marlene's dinner celebration scenes convey Churchill's skilful ability to remark the memories of the invited characters. During the celebration, each guest tells her past memories, while the 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 stage the problems of women and attempts to correct them by examining the negative practices that exist for them.

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.