Theatre
- Billy Elliot the Musical (2005) contains the song Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher by Elton John
- Market Boy (2006) – set in a marketplace in 1980s Romford, a character called "Posh Lady" is meant to resemble Thatcher. When the play debuted at the National Theatre in London, she was played by Nicola Blackwell
- The Death of Margaret Thatcher (2008) – Thatcher's coffin is onstage throughout the play, which deals with the cast's differing reactions to her death
- Handbagged (2010) – a play shown at the Tricycle Theatre in London as part of its Women, Power and Politics festival. Handbagged examined the relationship between Thatcher and the Queen. The younger Mrs Thatcher was portrayed by Claire Cox and the elder by Stella Gonet
- Thatcher – The Musical!
- The Audience (2013, played in the premiere production by Haydn Gwynne)
Read more about this topic: Cultural Depictions Of Margaret Thatcher
Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
The air is full of children, statues, roofs
And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.”
—David Hare (b. 1947)