Handbagged (NHB Modern Plays)

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. Handbagged speculates on the relationship between these two very powerful and private women.

This is the earlier, one-act version of Moira Buffini's later full length play of the same name. This play premiered as part of the Women, Power & Politics season at the Tricycle Theatre in 2010.

Auteur

Moira Buffini's writing for theatre includes a full-length version of Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre, 2013 and West End, 2014); Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre, 2010); A Vampire Story (NT Connections, 2008); Dinner (National Theatre, 2002); Loveplay (RSC, 2001), which was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy; Silence (Birmingham Rep/Plymouth Theatre Royal, 1999), winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Gabriel (Soho Theatre, 1997), winner of LWT Award and Whiting Award; and Blatvasky's Tower (Fringe).

She wrote Dying for It, a free adaptation of The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman, and Marianne Dreams, based on Catherine Storr's book, both for the Almeida (2007). She has also written a screen adaptation of A Vampire Story for Number 9 Films, an adaptation of Jane Eyre for BBC and Ruby Films for theatrical release, and a screen adaptation of Tamara Drewe for Ruby Films, directed by Stephen Frears.