A new play by feminist firebrand Boudicca Screech opened last night at The Reclaimed Industrial Space in fashionable east London.
Ambiguously entitled “I f*cking hate men, they’re so misogynist”, the play tells the story of how men are and have always been complete and irredeemable bastards. And what’s worse, they’re sometimes guilty of misogyny.
In a fawning interview in the Guardian, Screech said she was inspired to write the play by listening to a podcast by a male influencer in which he spoke slightingly about women, seeming to view them only as sexual objects rather than full human beings. “And I realised I had to counter this hate by calling for all men to be murdered.”
The play ends with a scene in which the heroine Gloriana, thought to be a thinly disguised portrait of Screech herself, manages to rid the world of men, only to starve to death because she can’t get the lid off a jar.
