At the very outset of the play, we get the impression that ‘Top Girls’ is a typical literary genre which upholds feminine values and challenges sexist bigotry. The women become ‘Top’ because they prove to be as capable and competent as men. Presenting women at a restaurant getting drunk is in itself a subversion of gender stereotypes. Nijo mentions ‘It was always the men who used to get so drunk’. The play gathers six female characters from different time, place, historical and imaginary. Yong (2002) claims that the purpose of breaking the linear structure is to project the situation faced by each of the characters in their ways of surviving inside a system, which is dominantly patriarchal.
Firat (2005) asserts that the characters created
Firat (2005) asserts that the characters created