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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Amelia Hill

Kristin Scott Thomas says male theatre critics fail to grasp plays about women

Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas received the leading light award at the Women's Prize for Playwriting ceremony in London. Photograph: Dave Benett/Aimee Rose McGhee/Getty Images

Kristin Scott Thomas has accused male theatre critics of failing to understand plays written by women and about women.

Citing her monologue on menstruation in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, she said the speech had “ripped through the internet”, proving the appetite for female stories told on their own terms.

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