Handbagged

For over a decade, Margaret Thatcher met the Queen for a weekly audience. With all her previous Prime Ministers the Queen enjoyed a fairly informal relationship, but with Mrs Thatcher, things were different.Moira Buffini's short play, Handbagged, speculates on the relationship between these two very powerful and private women.This is the one-act version of the play premiered as part of the Women, Power & Politics season at the Tricycle Theatre in 2010. It was later developed into a full-length version, which premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in 2013.