"This isn't just a play for people who have an opinion or strong feeling towards Maggie Thatcher, said Young. It's about class, about lives that collide, people trying to understand, asking questions, coming together and bridging that divide. I also think it's a play about what happens when people feel they don't have a voice, and how dangerous it is when they feel they don't have anything to lose."
"The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher August 6th 1983 was published in the Guardian in 2014 and gave the title to Mantel's collection of short stories that year. In the tale, a woman opens the front door of her flat in a genteel corner of Windsor expecting a plumber yet finds a gunman entering. He is intent on using her home's vantage point to take aim at the then prime minister, who is having an eye operation at a nearby private hospital."
A controversial short story imagining the murder of Margaret Thatcher in August 1983 will be staged in Liverpool next year. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (August 6th 1983) was published in the Guardian in 2014 and lent its title to a 2014 short-story collection. The narrative follows a woman who opens her Windsor flat to find a gunman planning to use her vantage point to shoot the prime minister during an eye operation at a nearby private hospital. The stage adaptation is by Alexandra Wood, to be directed by John Young, and foregrounds class, colliding lives and the dangers of political voicelessness.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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