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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

Handbagged

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 15 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9780571381425
      978-0571381425
      ISBN-10 0571381421
      Also in:
      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

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