Handbagged Av Moira Buffini

<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>