Celebs and the menopause

Germaine Greer v Menopause the Musical

From its beginnings in a tiny theatre in Orlando, Florida, Menopause the Musical became a phenomenon, showing in the US, Australia, Canada and the UK. Writer Jenny Linders created the show ‘as a celebration of women who or on the brink of, in the middle of, or have survived, The Change'.

Germaine Greer, author of The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause, hates it. ‘Menopause the Musical shoves us firmly back into the biology-equals-destiny dead-end,' she says. ‘One of the false claims of the promoters is that menopause unites all women, which is simply not true. A significant proportion of women will go through menopause with no symptoms whatsoever but the show presents menopausal uproar as unavoidable.'