Top Doll
Karen McCarthy Woolf’s novel-in-verse Top Doll is a ‘weird, wild’ and ‘unstoppably inventive’ story of a reclusive millionaire heiress that takes us from modern-day Park Avenue to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA – all told from the perspective of her vast collection of dolls…
In this scratch performance, which takes Top Doll as its starting point, we’re delighted to present a brand new collaboration between Karen and the multi-instrumentalist and performer Kerensa, whose work moves between a number of genres, including opera-inspired pop.
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