Restaurant scene in Top Girls The restaurant scene in Top Girls (TG) revolves around Marlene celebrating her promotion at work, it is purely female, having no actors males present throughout the entire play. The prominence of the five guests he chose to celebrate with furthers the hard work and sacrifices he has made to get to where he is. This scene uses women from the past to highlight the struggles of women throughout the ages, embracing the theme of women's experiences and women at work, with motherhood being an important factor for most of them. Everyone has had to struggle in one way or another to succeed in their life. The focus is on Marlene as the central character, not only because she is the mistress of the house and it is essentially her celebration, but because she connects with the other women and encourages them to pursue their stories. Although these characters are created by the author, their stories are very real and are used to portray the type of person Marlene is, fighting for what she wants in the contemporary male-dominated business world. The five women all have horrific stories to tell of hardship and oppression, caused by male domination. Isabella Bird "tried to please her father by conforming to the 'role' of a clergyman's daughter." Even when she was ill she fought for what she wanted and eventually traveled and was the "first European woman to see the emperor" in Morocco. (p.viii TG). Lady Nijo, at the age of 14, endured the oppression and domination of the Emperor, but she endured it, as "it was what she was bred to do". But when that was no longer in her favor, she became a nun and "went around the town on foot – she walked every day for twenty years" (p....... middle of the paper ......While the scene real is more than a private and surreal dinner, which simply reenacts events from the past, without having any effect on contemporary lifestyles. So, even if it has a relationship with the rest of the work, it is only as a topic , seems quite calm. a separate entity in practical terms, however, the rest of the work is real life, those situations arise and we have those problems to deal with. - GOODMAN, Lizbeth, Ed , 1996).- CHURCHILL , Caryl. Top Girls (London: Methuen, 1991).Audio/video- VC1: A210 Approaching Literature: A Doll's House.- VC 2: A210 Approaching Literature: Top Girls.- Audio Cassette 4: A Doll's House AC 2123- Audiocassette 5: An AC dollhouse 2124