


While her mother, Jana, is a retired teacher and a school administrator, her father, Larry, is a retired recreation minister who also worked as a pastor for thirty-five years. She has two younger sisters - Lindsay, 43, Courtney, 40 and the youngest of them all is her brother, Drew. The author's parents have been married for almost five decades and are blessed with four children. Originally named Jennifer King, she was born as the eldest child to Jana and Larry King. Hatmaker was born on Aug(age 46), in Kansas, United States in a religious family. Here's all that we know of her - Early Life She taught at UC Irvine, USA and wrote her dissertation on Contemporary Women Playwrights at the Royal Court Theatre from 1994-2000.The multi-talented woman, Jen Hatmaker, has had a successful career as a New York Times bestselling author, the face of HGTV's Your Big Family Reunion, a podcast show host, a speaker, and a blogger. 1 The book provides intelligent readings of key scenes from the play and useful cultural and political background, as well as the changing critical views that this landmark play has elicited during a period of over twenty years About the Author Alicia Tycer recently received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, San Diegos joint program in drama and theatre. Review Quotes A comprehensive and insightful approach.Tycers commentary and analysis reception and production histories, and practical ideas for understanding the play combine to persuade and to explicate Top Girls as still without significant equal in the feminist or mainstream canons - Professor Elaine Aston, Lancaster University, UK Briefly reviewed in the Years work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. Top Girls is one of Churchills most well known and often studied works, using an all female cast to critique bourgeois feminism during the Thatcher era.


Identified as a socialist feminist writer, she is one of the few British women playwrights to have been incorporated into the dramatic canon. Book Synopsis Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre. About the Book Accessible informative critical introduction to Caryl Churchills classic modern play, Top Girls.
