Top Girls was written by Caryl Churchill in the late 1970’s to the early 1980s. the play is centred around a woman called Marlene, who is very career driven and is heavily invested in women’s success within business. The play examines the roles available to women in the modern society at the time and what it means/ takes for woman to succeed in those times. The play was written in the background of Margret Thatcher’s election as Britain’s first female prime minister and deals with the concerns like; Thatcher’s right-wing politics, the shift in 1980s Britain from a socialist mindset to a more capitalist one and the feminine politics of the 1980s. Churchill is a playwright who known for dramatizing the abuses of power and her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes through non-naturalistic techniques within her plays. I think Top Girls is a prime example of this and that she wrote the play as direct answer to the political events that happened during that decade. I started my research by looking into Margret Thatcher and how she ended up becoming the first female prime minister of Britain and what she did while in the role but also the uproar that some of those things caused around the country. I watched shows like The Crown and It’s a Sin as well as films like Billy Elliot and The Iron Lady, to gain a better understanding of what it was like in the different parts of the country and the impact she made.