Girls take to the stage

Top: L-R) Justine Gorry portrays a character based on the obedient wife in the “Clerk’s Tale” from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Alexa Maris plays a concubine to the Emperor of Japan in the 13th Century during dress rehearsal for Top Girls on Oct. 15, 2018, in Woodland Hills, Calif.

Middle Top : Sabrena No’mani portrays the subject of Brueghel’s painting called Dulle Griet during dress rehearsal for Top Girls.

Middle Bottom: (L-R) Asia Herbison plays a nextdoor neighbor and friend to Sabrena No’mani’s character during dress rehearsal for Top Girls.

Bottom Right: A group of actresses, playing historcal women figures, during dress rehearsal for Top Girls.

Bottom Left:(L-R) Justine “J.C.” Brandy plays the biological mother of a 16 year-old, who is played by Sabrena No’mani during dress rehearsal for Top Girls.

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This all female cast production highlights the life altering decisions women in society have to face, whether to become a mother and raise a family or follow their dreams.

According to the Top Girls poster, the play is “an insightful commentary on bourgeois feminism, this bold and ingenious work offers one of theatre’s most honest portraits of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.”

Top Girls opens Friday Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. at the Dow Arena Theatre, with other showings on Oct. 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 21 and 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com