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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Feminism is a dish best served hot in </SPAN></B><SPAN
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Girls’</SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>The dinner table – where two or more contrary characters are
required by convention, circumstance or social obligation to sit and talk – is
often used as the centerpiece great plays. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s there where proper etiquette and
unpleasant temperament collide, resulting in character-defining discomfort,
unexpected disclosure and some really good theater.<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT face=Georgia><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Shakespeare had
Macbeth join Lady Macbeth and various Lords for dinner, only to find his place
occupied by Banquo's ghost.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">The Bard served up some chilling
cuisine</FONT></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> during the notorious
family feast in “Titus Andronicus.”</FONT></FONT><SPAN
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color=#333333><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">The extent of southern family dysfunction and the
epitome of narcissistic bohemian behavior unfold over dinner in
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color=#545454><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Tracy
Letts</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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“August: Osage County” and Noël Coward's “Hay Fever,”
respectively.</FONT></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>It can be
argued that some of the most memorable moments in thrillers such as Patrick
Hamilton's “Rope,” comedies like Bernard Shaw's “You Never Can Tell,” dramas
like </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Tennessee Williams' “A Streetcar
Named Desire,” and such sentimental storytelling as Charles Dickens’ “A
Christmas Carol” <SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>take place at the
table.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>And this
is certainly the case with “Top Girls,” </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Caryl
Churchill’s treatise on women breaking the glass ceiling that p</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>remiered in 1982 at London's
Royal Court Theatre, during the cusp of the equal rights movement at
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>the
start of the Thatcher era.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An
intriguing production of the play is being staged by the </SPAN><SPAN
class=color35><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: tahoma">Mamaí
Theatre Company.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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