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Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court Theatre's inventive director, mentioned the BBC have been "amused" by the name Snatches
A theatre director has spoken of her disbelief that the BBC authorized the name Snatches for her new TV collection.
Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court Theatre's inventive director, has curated eight monologues for BBC Four to mark 100 years of girls's suffrage.
On the phrase Snatcheswhich may be a derogatory time period for a vaginashe informed the Radio Times journal: "It's reclaiming the word, isn't it?"
She mentioned BBC Four "were rather amused by it".
"It was my first idea, and I thought, 'There's no way they're going to let it happen,'" she mentioned.
But it was allowed and Featherstone says it "fits very well".
"Our monologues are literally snatches of women's lives but a lot of those stories are about people and issues that aren't really known, so we're reclaiming the history and we're reclaiming the word," she informed the journal.
The eight brief 15-minute episodes, directed by Vanessa Caswill and Rachna Suri, have been penned by writers together with Abi Morgan and Tanika Gupta.
Atonement actress Romola Garai, Downton Abbey star Siobhan Finneran and Three Girls actress Liv Hill are among the many stars concerned.
One of the monologues relies on rape inside marriage, whereas one other is about an actress's expertise assembly a producer.
The collection, which can air this summer season as a part of the broadcaster's Hear Her season, marks the centenary of girls over the age of 30, and who owned property, with the ability to vote within the UK.
Featherstone mentioned engaged on the collection had been a wake-up name when it comes to gender equality.
"I'm an incredibly optimistic person," she mentioned.
"But I believe the shock, for all of us who labored on Snatches, is that issues perhaps have not modified as a lot for ladies as we thought that they had.
"Snatches shows how things can shift. We just have to make sure they don't shift backwards."
Snatches: Moments From Women's Lives begins on Monday, 18 June on BBC Four