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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain

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Clara Sanchís in the one-woman performance of A Room of One’s Own. Photograph: Teatre RavalView image in fullscreenClara Sanchís in the one-woman performance of A Room of One’s Own. Women had been admitted to study at Cambridge since 1869 but weren’t allowed to graduate with a degree until 1948.Woolf said that in order to produce high-quality fiction, “a woman must have money and a room of her own”.

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Clara Sanchís in the one-woman performance of A Room of One’s Own. Photograph: Teatre RavalView image in fullscreenClara Sanchís in the one-woman performance of A Room of One’s Own. Photograph: Teatre RavalMetaMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminismStephen Burgen in BarcelonaMon 21 Sep 2026 10.11 EDTLast modified on Mon 21 Sep 2026 10.51 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleA theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own on Instagram and Facebook because the work includes “social topics”.When the newly reopened Teatre Raval, which seats 193 spectators, asked Meta, parent…

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