Top Girls

Angie, age 16, played by the same actor who plays Dull Gret, and Kit, age 12, played by the actor who plays the waitress, are squeezed into a makeshift fort in Angie’s backyard. Angie’s mother, Joyce, played by the actor who plays Isabella, yells for Angie, but Angie and Kit sit silently until Joyce gives up. Angie wishes her mother were dead. Angie and Kit talk about going to the movies, but Angie has no money and doesn’t want to ask her mother or let Kit pay. Angie claims her mother doesn’t like Kit, and Kit retorts that Angie’s mom doesn’t like Angie. Joyce calls from offstage again, demanding that Angie come inside. They wait silently again. Angie claims she made a picture fall off the wall last night by thinking about it. She also claims to have heard a dead kitten outside last night. Kit doesn’t believe her. Angie threatens to leave Kit in the fort all night and not let her go home. She teases Kit and calls her a baby. They argue and insult each other. Angie declares, “I’m going to kill my mother and you’re going to watch” (36), to which Kit proclaims that she isn’t playing.