Glenda Jackson Returns To Acting After 23 Years In Politics – And Says Things Aren’t A Bit Better For Women In Theatre

“Where have been the remarkable new plays which have women as the driving engine as opposed to the adjunct for what is always, and inevitably, a male engine-driver? That hasn’t changed. That is what is deeply, deeply depressing. It was exactly the same when I was still earning my living in the theatre and I have seen no improvement in that area at all. … Why don’t creative people find women interesting?”