ISBN: 0571381421 9780571381425

Category: Drama / General

Page count: 128

<p><i>I've spent a lifetime in the ebb and flow of power</i><br> <i>It brings its gifts</i><br> <i>But then it's an intoxicant</i><br> <i>One must beware lest one consumes too much</i><br> <br> The monarch.<br> Her most powerful subject.<br> <br> Two women meet once a week for eleven years. One believes there is no such thing as society. The other has vowed to serve it.<br> <br> Moira Buffini's wickedly funny hit comedy imagines what the world's most powerful women, Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, talked about behind closed palace doors.<br> <br> Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, <i>Handbagged</i> was first performed in September 2013 and returned to Kiln Theatre, London, in September 2022.<br> <br> 'A phenomenon.' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br> <br> 'Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.' <i>Guardian</i></p>