The Female of the Species - TNT


No wonder Germaine Greer was incensed by fellow Aussie Joanna Murray-Smith's portrayal of a fictional feminist writer, Margot Mason, held hostage (like Greer herself several years ago) by a disgruntled ex-student who believes Mason's writing has completely wrecked her life.
Anna Maxwell Martin's obsessive, gun-toting intruder and Margot's stressed-out housewife daughter are just two of the uninvited visitors who find their way to the academic's isolated country home and reveal the inconsistencies in her influential theorising.
Eileen Atkins is always watchable as the handcuffed author of The Cerebral Vagina, and the arrival of a bearded taxi driver adds a belated whiff of testosterone to this comic exposure of the post-feminist confusion of both sexes.
Vaudeville Theatre, WC2 (0870-040 0084). Until October 4. £27.50-£47.50