lloyd is an experience director of shakespeare and also director of films including mamma mia, iron lady, the margaret thatcher starring meryl streep and marcos brutus and played many of shakespeare's women in the royal shakespeare company from viola and beatrice to lady macbeth. >> frances barber wrote, here, ophelia at the rsc and cle patent tra at the globe i am pleased to have all of them here with me at this table, welcome. let me just beg, this comes from you, this idea, this production. >> yes. two women have got their hand on the keys of one of the important london theaters for the first time. >> rose: yes. >> reports have just been issued in london saying that for every job in the arts that went to a woman, there were two jobs going to men, and those two things, they asked me to do a show in their opening season and i thought, right, we have got to make some reparations here. >> rose: yes, reparations is it, what did you do? >> i talked to harriet about whether she wanted to come on board on the adventure and about what play might be suitable for the occasion, and i chose t