Tag Archives: women

Why I created a parody of Woman’s Hour

Posted on May 5, 2024 by mkmswain

Comedian Lorna Rose Treen has turned her experiences into a spoof Radio 4 series, Time of the Week. Read my full Telegraph article here

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Female-led West End shows to see for International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2023 by mkmswain

From Six and Tina to Shirley Valentine. Read my full London Theatre article here

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Female-led shows to see for International Women’s Day

Posted on February 22, 2022 by mkmswain

From & Juliet to Six and The Drifters Girl. Read my full London Theatre article here

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Dull girl power speeches and wild sex do not make Bridgerton a feminist triumph

Posted on January 2, 2021 by mkmswain

“We’re seeing this Regency romance through a feminist lens,” proclaimed actor Regé-Jean Page, who plays the hunky-but-tortured Duke of Hastings in Netflix’s bodice-ripper Bridgerton, in a recent interview. Co-star Phoebe Dynevor has also thrown around the F word, saying that … Continue reading →

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The Welkin, National Theatre

Posted on January 23, 2020 by mkmswain

How can we know more about a comet in outer space than we do a woman’s body? So queries Lucy Kirkwood’s superb new history play – a feminist courtroom drama that’s equal parts Twelve Angry Men, The Crucible and The Vagina Monologues, plus a dash … Continue reading →

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What Girls Are Made Of, Soho Theatre

Posted on September 12, 2019 by mkmswain

It’s now Edinburgh Fringe transfer season in London, but here’s one they made earlier: Cora Bissett’s Fringe First-winning autobiographical play from the 2018 Festival about her time in 1990s indie band Darlingheart. Though the broad shape of this tale is familiar, Bissett’s gig-theatre … Continue reading →

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Top Girls, National Theatre

Posted on April 4, 2019 by mkmswain

Caryl Churchill’s ground-breaking 1982 work comes to the National for the first time – and, also a first, with a full cast rather than actors doubling up, as the playwright had originally intended. It adds to the expansive feel of Lyndsey … Continue reading →

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Emilia, Vaudeville Theatre

Posted on March 22, 2019 by mkmswain

“We are only as powerful as the stories we tell.” So proclaims poet and activist Emilia Bassano, as she wrestles back her own story in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s 2018 Globe hit – its raw, feminist, revolutionary power just as potent … Continue reading →

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I’m Not Running, National Theatre

Posted on October 10, 2018 by mkmswain

Britain’s foremost political playwright David Hare returns with a new play examining the current state of the Labour Party. Or not exactly – this is a world with no Brexit, no Corbyn, nothing, in fact, to anchor it to the … Continue reading →

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Dance Nation, Almeida Theatre

Posted on September 5, 2018 by mkmswain

Wild, raw, hilarious and tender, Clare Barron’s electrifying play – first seen in New York earlier this year – is a candid portrait of prepubescent girls, rare compared with the myriad male coming-of-age tales. But, like its warrior women, Barron’s … Continue reading →

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