1226 Murfin
Ann Arbor
MI 48109
Feb. 14, 16, 22, & 23 (different programs). U-M students and faculty perform staged readings of works by this acclaimed English playwright in honor of her 80th birthday. Tonight: Top Girls (7 p.m.), the groundbreaking 1982 indictment of Thatcherism and the idea that women’s professional success hinges on their mimicry of “masculine” behavior. Following the female head of a London employment agency, the play underlines the social and emotional costs women pay to move up the corporate ladder. Also, 1994 play The Skriker (9 p.m.), a 90-minute hallucinogenic fairy tale about a shapeshifting, doom-wreaking fairy who befriends, manipulates, seduces, and entraps 2 teen moms, one pregnant and one who’s killed her own baby.
7 & 9 p.m., U-M Walgreen Drama Center Newman Studio, 1226 Murfin. Free. 764-5350
