Nicholas Hytner, director of London’s National Theatre says that London’s theatre critics are a “dead white male” club and that they don’t give female directors a chance. “He said that many of the daily newspaper critics were in their jobs when he was at university. ‘I won’t stay in my job for as long as they stay in theirs. When I become a dead white male I will only be hired to do dead white male theatre.’ Some critics could not help but notice that a play was directed by a woman, he said.”