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Matriarchal dystopias: Joe Orton got there before the Two Ronnies

Summary by The Guardian
Up Against It and The Worm That Turned | War-readiness v human survival | White liberal response | A northern insultThe Two Ronnies weren’t the first to write about a dystopian world run by women when they came up with the sketch series The Worm That Turned (Is Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike’s new gender swap comedy inspired by The Two Ronnies?, 20 April). This was all covered much earlier by Joe Orton’s screenplay Up Against It, written fo…

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the Guardian broke the news on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
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