Period dramas: menstruation really can be a bloody nightmare

Zawe Ashton spoke for women everywhere when she talked about her fear of getting her period on stage. This is something men simply do not understandOn Woman’s Hour, Zawe Ashton talked about a recurring fear, when performing on stage, that she will get her period. She was in Genet’s The Maids in London’s West End, and confessed this to her female co-stars, who confessed the same right back – that they too worry they will look up to find the audience sniggering at the blood