The Old Vic’s toilets have been labelled by cubicle and urinal, rather than men and women

Women have spent 200 years queueing for the lavatories at the Old Vic. Now they are lining up to criticise the theatre for reducing the number reserved for them to zero.

When the London theatre launched a fundraising drive last year for £100,000 towards a refurbishment, front and centre was a pledge to “double the number of ladies’ loos”.

Stars including Joanna Lumley, Glenda Jackson and Rupert Everett backed the More Loos campaign. Lumley lamented that queues were so long for women that “they can’t manage to have a drink and a waz at half time” during shows. Jackson asked: “Is it that you think women don’t wee or that women don’t like the theatre?”

All of the lavatories installed after the fundraising, however, will