Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher

Writer: Neil Gore Director: Louise Townsend Designer: Carl Davies Reviewer: Ron Simpson Townsend Theatre Productions are a rare and wonderful thing, taking self-written, committed and consistently entertaining plays on left-wing subjects, mostly union-related, on the road for mammoth tours. If the tours are mammoth in terms of duration, the production is always small-scale in terms of the impedimenta of theatre ...

Next up in our annual series of Fringe preview Q & A's it's the turn of Margaret Thatcher, Queen of Gameshows. In one sentence tell us about your show. It's a drag comedy cabaret musical satirical game show extravaganza in which I, Margaret Thatcher, make people compete for their jobseeker's allowance - it's like means testing but with songs! What ...

Devisers: In Bed With My Brother Reviewer: Sophie Huggins Stepping into the Komedia space is as though stepping into a funky coloured, party scented, beat pumping time machine, whizzing back to a year synonymous with 80s culture, when strikes were rife, when the Berlin Wall came down and when Maggie Thatcher reigned: 1989. Taking it back is a troublesome trio ...

Writer: Jonathan Maitland Director: Ian Talbot Reviewer: Joan Phillips Anyone even faintly acquainted with the political personalities of the UK during the 1980s will know of the half-man, half-woman Margaret Thatcher; the comic similarities drawn between Heseltine and Tarzan, the references to the Hollywood good looks of Cecil Parkinson, and the arrogance and caddish behaviour of Alan Clarke, but how ...

Writer: Jonathan Maitland Director: Ian Talbot Designer: Morgan Large Reviewer: Ron Simpson The outward and visible signs are that Dead Sheep is a satire: the title based on Denis Healey’s famous gibe, the presence in the cast of Steve Nallon, once Spitting Image’s outrageously accurate Mrs. Thatcher, even the “Very Funny” press comment in the publicity material. But it is ...

Writer: Moira Buffini Director: Indhu Rubasingham Reviewer: Fraser MacDonald Moira Buffini's Handbagged, a satirical take on the weekly audience meetings between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen, plays this week in Edinburgh's King's Theatre, promising a sharp, insightful dramatisation of the relationship between the twomost powerful women of their time. Running chronologically, the play begins with Thatcher's first audience and concludes ...

Writer: Moira Buffini Director: Indhu Rubasingham Reviewer: Fergus Morgan Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher. Two iconic figures of the 20th Century, born just a few months apart, and responsible for some of the most significant changes in British history. Wouldn’t it be brilliant if we could know what they thought of each other? In Handbagged, Moira Buffini’s mildly enjoyable ...

Writer: John Kelly Director: John Kelly Reviewer: Sue Collier The National Coal Mining Museum provides the perfect setting for this hilarious, award winning comedy by writer/director John Kelly which tells the story of 15 year old Barnsley lad Darby, as he finds his feet in the world of work at a time when Harold Wilson's pit closures and the importance ...