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Fen " review by Lyn Gardner

Finborough, LondonCaryl Churchill's 1982 play, Top Girls, ends with a child crying a single word: "Frightening." She has woken from a terrifying vision of a future of limited prospects for a girl without brains, looks and money, ill-equipped to compete in a thrusting Thatcherite world.Fen, produced in 1983, can be seen as a companion piece, detailing that future in a hostile Fenland landscape where the starving ghost…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PM on March 9, 2011

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