Tag: Hilary Mantel
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Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Mantel’s Liverpool Play
Overview: Mantel’s Provocative Tale Finds a New Stage in Liverpool The controversial narrative by Hilary Mantel that imagines the assassination of Margaret Thatcher in the summer of 1983 has moved from page to stage, with plans for a forthcoming Liverpool production. First serialized in The Guardian in 2014 under the headline The Assassination of Margaret…
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Mantel’s Controversial Thatcher Play to Debut in Liverpool: A Theatre About Assassination and History
A Provocative Stage Reimagining of a Controversial Narrative Hilary Mantel’s provocative short story imagining the assassination of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has moved from the page to the stage. The production, set to be staged in Liverpool next year, reopens a long-running debate about how memory, history, and political power are portrayed in…
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Liverpool Stages Mantle of Controversy: Mantel-Inspired Thatcher Play Draws Debate
Heritage, Fiction, and a Provocative Stage A controversial new production in Liverpool draws on Hilary Mantel’s provocative fiction to reimagine a defining moment of British politics: the summer of 1983, when Thatcher’s fate was imagined differently through Mantel’s lens. The play, which adapts the 2014 Guardian publication and Mantel’s subsequent commentary on historical narrative, places…