Handbagged

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Handbags, hairspray and sensible shoes.The monarch - Liz.Her most powerful subject - Maggie.One believed there was no such thing as society. The other had vowed to serve it.Opening the clasp on the antipathy between two giants of the twentieth century, Handbagged by Moira Buffini premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in September 2013.

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Pure theatre, doing something only theatre can. It should, as Maggie would say, go On and On. The Times A clever, mischievous little pleasure with the sharp teeth of a kicked corgi. Metro Wickedly funny. Evening Standard Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious. Guardian Deliriously funny. Time Out

Author Bio

Moira Buffini's plays include Blavatsky's Tower (Machine Room), Gabriel (Soho Theatre), Silence (Birmingham Rep), Loveplay (Royal Shakespeare Company), Dinner (National Theatre and West End), Dying for It, adapted from The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman (Almeida), A Vampire Story (NT Connections), Marianne Dreams (Almeida Theatre) and Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre). She lives in London with her husband and children.