Handbagged
Published on 15. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-571-38142-5 (ISBN)
Description
I've spent a lifetime in the ebb and flow of power
It brings its gifts
But then it's an intoxicant
One must beware lest one consumes too much
The monarch.
Her most powerful subject.
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.
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.
Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, Handbagged was first performed in September 2013 and returned to Kiln Theatre, London, in September 2022.
'A phenomenon.' Sunday Telegraph
'Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.' Guardian
It brings its gifts
But then it's an intoxicant
One must beware lest one consumes too much
The monarch.
Her most powerful subject.
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.
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.
Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, Handbagged was first performed in September 2013 and returned to Kiln Theatre, London, in September 2022.
'A phenomenon.' Sunday Telegraph
'Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.' Guardian
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-38142-5 (9780571381425)
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Moira Buffini is one of the UK's leading dramatists. She has written acclaimed films and plays, including The Dig (BAFTA-nominated), Jane Eyre, Byzantium, Tamara Drewe, Dinner and Handbagged (Olivier Award winner). For young adults she has written Silence, A Vampire Story and the musical, wonder.land. She was co-creator and showrunner of the TV series Harlots. Songlight was her debut novel.