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Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem on her pivot from music to acting: ‘I felt a bit dead’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Her smash hit second album left the pop star also known as Self Esteem feeling the pressure to deliver an equally thrilling follow-up. Now, she’s playing a spiralling rock star in a major West End revival of David Hare's 1975 play ‘Teeth ’n’ Smiles’. She tells Jessie…

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‘Let’s get raunchy!’ Gentleman Jack, the TV hit about an audacious lesbian landowner, is back as a ballet

Gentleman Jack, the hit TV show about the audacious lesbian love affairs of Anne Lister, is being turned into a ballet – by a choreographer well-versed in strong, complicated women

The Guardian - UK

Cynthia Erivo is Dracula, Gentleman Jack does ballet and Phil Wang’s mega-tour: theatre, dance and comedy in 2026

Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner unite for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Michael Sheen launches Welsh National Theatre and Bridget Christie revs up for a return to the stage

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: a claustrophobic thriller set in a Scottish holiday park

Each family cabin gets its own episode in the eerie Summerwater. Plus: Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women ends with a bang! Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Tom Daley’s kooky knitting competition is somehow incredible

The Olympian opens his ‘yarn barn’ to a wonderful bunch of knitters. Plus: Daisy May and Charlie Cooper try to meet a poltergeist. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Riot Women's Joanna Scanlan had to 'go back to the drawing board' and embrace 'method acting' to deliver creator's music-making vision

The six-part series had another layer of authenticity that you might never have imagined and the cast rose to a serious challenge

Woman & Home

Riot Women and lesbians in the 1970s

Letters: Readers respond to Tiff Bakker’s critique of Sally Wainwright’s BBC series

The Guardian - UK

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Riot Women's quietly devastating portrayal of dementia is 'one of the most accurate on TV'

Anne Reid and Sue Johnston as Nancy and Mary carry the show's dementia storyline perfectly

Woman & Home

There is a fascinating TV series to be made about a menopausal rock band – Riot Women isn’t it

Writer-director Sally Wainwright is a national treasure, but here she’s reduced the fury and passion of the riot grrrl movement to a minor plot device, says Tiff Bakker, a New York-based writer

The Guardian - UK

Monsters, menopause and bold women – what to see, read and visit this week

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has long served as a parable – a warning against the hubris of playing God, the dangers of motherless creation, reckless parenthood and unchecked scientific ambition. It’s a story that continues to resonate, revealing how little human ego and error have changed over time.

The Conversation

‘You’re just like your mother’ - Sally Wainwright reveals how an 'insult' inspired the original songs in Riot Women

A line thrown at her during arguments with her husband has been turned into a positive song for the show and a reminder of the beloved mother she lost

Woman & Home

With Riot Women, Sally Wainwright is turning menopause into punk rebellion

Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women opens not with music, but with the sound of ice clinking in a glass and tonic fizzing as it’s poured over gin.

The Conversation

The Hebden Bridge I know was always a place for Riot Women

As Sally Wainwright brings the West Yorkshire town back to our screens, a fellow local writer returns home and reflects on how it’s changed since she was a child

The Guardian - UK

Riot Women is taboo-busting TV that’s made me feel braver about future menopause

IN FOCUS: Sally Wainwright’s new drama follows a group of women channelling their midlife rage into their punk band. It’s about time more TV got real about the menopause, says Katie Rosseinsky

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The Guardian - UK

Riot Women review – Sally Wainwright’s menopausal punk drama is one of her best

This high-pedigree TV drama about midlife women who form a punk band is up there with Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. It’s rich, plot-packed, and perfectly seasoned with humour

The Independent UK

Riot Women review – New drama from Happy Valley creator is absolutely glorious

4/5 A misfit group of middle-aged women, led by the superb Joanna Scanlan, set up a band and have a blast

Evening Standard

Riot Women on BBC One review: Sally Wainwright's latest drama is a glorious, feminist roar

4/5 To hell with ageing gracefully; Wainwright’s latest work is an ode to the power of rock and smashing the patriarchy

Evening Standard

Women ‘saturated by shame’ and many frightened of menopause, says Joanna Scanlan

The Bafta award-winning actress stars in Sally Wainwright’s new series, Riot Women.

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Woman & Home

'If the menopause happened to blokes, we’d be getting HRT from Tesco' - Sally Wainwright's inspiration for Riot Women is so relatable

Instead of getting therapy for the menopause, Sally Wainwright wrote Riot Women

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Sally Wainwright’s furious drama about a menopausal punk band

Joanna Scanlan and Lorraine Ashborne crank up the volume in Riot Women. Plus: Fargo meets The Walking Dead in a freaky new series. Here’s what to watch this evening

Woman & Home

Meet the 'real' Riot Women: the band gigging through menopause

Sally Wainwright's new TV series is sure to inspire us all. Find out what it’s really like to be in a band during midlife

The Guardian - UK

From Tron: Ares to Riot Women: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

There’s another sequel to the beloved 1980s sci-fi classic, and Sally Wainwright’s latest about a new rock band formed of middle-aged women

The Guardian - UK

Riot women! Inside Sally Wainwright’s joyous, raucous TV show about menopausal punks

The Happy Valley creator has turned her darkest hour into a rebellious tale of midlife women uniting in musical anarchy. The team behind the highly awaited drama talk vodka, rock’n’roll and hot flushes

The Conversation

The Assassin: Keeley Hawes drama is a milestone for menopause on screen

Keeley Hawes’s new Channel 4 and Prime Video drama, The Assassin, introduces a premise that feels both bold and overdue. It follows Julie (Hawes), a menopausal woman, overlooked and emotionally stalled, who worked as a hitwoman in her youth and unexpectedly comes out of retirement to return to the profession.

Evening Standard

Happy Valley role born out of fear, Sarah Lancashire says

Lancashire, 60, won two leading actress Baftas for playing grieving Sergeant Catherine Cawood in the BBC drama set in Hebden Bridge.

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