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'The audience want to connect with her': portraying the Queen after her death by Emine Saner

The Kiln theatre's Handbagged, about the monarch's meetings with Margaret Thatcher, has opened in a week of mourning. Its stars reflect on the play's humour and their tears in rehearsal They all wondered, says actor Marion Bailey, "can we do this play now?" Handbagged was due to begin previews at London's Kiln theatre last Friday, then news broke of the Queen's death. That performance was cancelled but the cast took …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AM on September 14, 2022

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