Hytner And Billington Duke It Out In The Car Park

Well, duke it out verbally, anyway, over Nicholas Hytner’s “allegation that too many critics are ageing misogynists cut from the same cloth,” Michael Billington writes. After the two ran into each other in the car park, “a lively debate ensued. To his credit, Hytner gave some ground and admitted, particularly over the accusation of entrenched misogyny, that he may have overstated the case. But he stuck fiercely to his line that daily drama criticism was dominated by men of a certain generation….”