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Cast announced for a reimagined revival of Moira Buffini’s comedy Handbagged which will tour across England from February to May
Cast Announced for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s National Tour of Moira Buffini’s Handbagged
Cast announced for a reimagined revival of Moira Buffini’s comedy Handbagged which will tour across England from February to May
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January 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
brothermanshaft.bsky.social
This reads so much like the UK. The EU was a prop in UK political theatre. The lies of ambitious journalists; the thumped Brussels table; the 'handbagged' Bureaucrat; domestic failure blamed on 'regulations; the reeking #BritishExceptionalism of opt-outs.

It must do better for #RejoinEU to succeed
March 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
equilibrium.bike
He returns to a familiar logic, that views Europe's leaders as essentially passive and subject to external forces, the same logic that lead to EU concessions to the UK during its membership, "handbagged" if you like.

That leads one to ignore alternate outcomes, in either US election result.
November 5, 2024 at 11:35 AM
digitasmedia.bsky.social
An Italian granny handbagged him. A delightful story.
a group of people are walking down the street in front of a david alan store
ALT: a group of people are walking down the street in front of a david alan store
media.tenor.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
liarsleague.bsky.social
Claire plays the title role in Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit, which just won the Hamilton Deane Award & tours the UK this autumn. Other roles include Lynda/Edna/Arabella (Damsels in Distress trilogy) Mags in Handbagged & Sheila in Relatively Speaking Theatre Royal Windsor
August 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
trnorth.bsky.social
The funny satire of an imagined relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, 'Handbagged', goes back out on tour
@thelowry.com @trwakefield.bsky.social @grandtheatrebpl.bsky.social #northernstage #MoiraBuffini
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Handbagged: 80s Pop Revamp of Thatcher/HM The Queen comedy
The funny satire of an imagined relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, 'Handbagged', goes back out on tour
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February 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
trnorth.bsky.social
Steve Griffiths is underwhelmed by Moira Buffini's neat pitting of younger and older Queens against young and old PMs in Handbagged
#handbagged @thelowry.com #moirabuffini @grandtheatrebpl.bsky.social #TheatreRoyalWakefield
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Handbagged
Steve Griffiths is underwhelmed by Moira Buffini's neat pitting of younger and older Queens against young and old PMs
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March 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
grandtheatrebpl.bsky.social
BLACK FRIDAY WEEKEND! £25 tickets! 🎟️

Including Moira Buffini’s clever, funny and charming political comedy, Handbagged, unlocks the palace door, imagining the untold conversations of two of history’s most powerful women, Thatcher and QEII.

BOOK NOW! www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 12:13 PM
matineemouse.substack.com
Casting has been confirmed for the National Tour of Moira Buffini’s Handbagged, launching at @queenstheatreh.bsky.social on 6 Feb as part of the @nationaltheatre.org.uk #TheatreNationPartnerships network.

🎟️ Find your nearest venue at nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/handbagged/

#HandbaggedTour
January 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
loraxthatshit.bsky.social
If you're out doing ICE nonsense that gets you handbagged by grandmothers in the street, maybe it's not a sign that you need to wear a disguise. Maybe it's just that you're a horrible criminal doing criminal shit.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jun 22
And these are the same snowflakes who couldn’t handle wearing a mask during the pandemic.
June 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
bearbares.bsky.social
I kinda love how to can turn any noun into a yoofamissum for being drunk.

I was so wardrobed/handbagged/cannoned/businesse/doorwayed/banked et al.

Oh by the way, I’m drunk again.
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
john-self.bsky.social
"In the course of my conversation with Helen she listed her criteria for a good novel, and the last of them was 'It must be ideologically correct'."

David Lodge, Booker chair in 1989, thought Amis's London Fields a frontrunner for the prize. Here's when he realised it wouldn't even get shortlisted.
At the June meeting we drew up a list of forty-seven novels which were deemed worthy of serious consideration, and at the first September meeting we whittled these down to seventeen to be considered for the shortlist. During that time I had phone conversations with both Maggie and Helen. Maggie wanted an assurance that the shortlist would not be decided by a numerical majority of only 3 to 2. I could not give it, but reiterated what I had said at the beginning of the process, that I hoped we could reach a consensus by discussion. In the course of my conversation with Helen she listed her criteria for a good novel, and the last of them was, 'It must be ideologically correct'. I was so startled by this declaration that I did not challenge it, as I should have done. At this time the phrase 'politically correct' had not yet reached Britain from America, and when it did so it carried the scare quotes which allowed it to be used ironically by sophisticated left-wingers as well as scornfully by outraged right-wingers. 'Ideologically correct' was a much more inflexible concept which one associated with Stalinist Russia or Mao's China. In my view a responsible literary critic should always try to suspend his or her ideological principles and prejudices when reading a text to assess its literary merit. I prepared carefully for the shortlist meeting, and had a folder in my notes on all seventeen books, arranged alphabetically by author: The first of these was Amis, Martin. As mentioned earlier, I thought his novel Money had been unjustly excluded from the shortlist by the judges in 1984. I was pleased when I heard that he had a new novel out this year, called London Fields, and looked forward eagerly to reading it. Having done so I described it in my notes as: Notable for dense, imaginative and expressive use of language, summoning up a wasteland vision of urban and global entropy. Brilliant metaphors and similes. Often blackly funny. Cunning interweaving of motifs and symbolism. MA's preoccupations with pornography & Swiftian relish of disgusting behaviour manifest in earlier work continue here, but much more under control. Keith is an extraordinary creation - totally loathsome, yet credible and weirdly vital... The flatness and unchangingness of the other main characters is the only arguable flaw in this generally brilliant achievement, and perhaps it is a little too long for its own good. But a frontrunner. The shortlist meeting took place in the utilitarian premises of Book Trust in south-west London. We sat at a rectangular Formica-topped table with myself at the head, Martyn to one side and slightly behind me, the two men to my left, and the two women on the right. I began by proposing that we should get an idea of our collective preferences by going through the seventeen novels one by one, each person classifying them as 'shortlist', 'hold' or 'eliminate', and I had prepared a chart to record these responses, but Ed suggested that instead we should each simply say what our current six choices for the shortlist were, and this won support from the others. At the end of the first round everyone had chosen Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, and Rose Tremain's Restoration, and they were accordingly shortisted, Both Ed White and David Profumo had nominated London Fields, though they were less enthusiastic than I in giving their reasons. I pointed out that no other novel in the remainder we were now considering had achieved three votes in the first round, and proposed that it should therefore be shortlisted. At this Maggie launched a fierce attack on the book as morally and formally flawed: seriously confused, banal, unconvincing on nuclear catastrophe and pollution, and irredeemably sexist. It sounded like a prepared speech, lasted for ten minutes or more, and was remembered later by Martyn Goff in an interview as 'the time when Maggie Gee handbagged David Lodge'. She was supported unreservedly by Helen McNeil. The import of the telephone conversations I had had with each of them was now clear. I did my best to defend Amis's novel, but Maggie and Helen were adamant. Ed said that as I was chairman they should accept my casting vote in Amis's favour, at which Maggie looked distressed and said she would be very unhappy if London Fields went through. David Profumo said that he didn't think we could shortlist a novel to which the two women judges were so strongly opposed. It was 12.30 and we still had only two books on the shortlist. I put London Fields on hold and suggested we considered Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, which had been commended with some qualifications in the first round, and it was agreed that it should be shortlisted. With that accomplished, we broke for lunch.
December 7, 2024 at 9:42 AM
gillhughes.bsky.social
Absolutely loved #Handbagged @trwakefield.bsky.social today. Clever and funny and brilliantly acted! Loved the #TheatreRoyal #Wakefield too. #Play still on tour…www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/...
April 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
nhaltd.bsky.social
Last night in Hornchurch to see our lovely Gerard McDermott in HANDBAGGED @queenstheatreh.bsky.social

One review - 'Gerard's multi role interpretations were all oozing charm, presence, and poise, with a refreshingly organic comedy bone'.

On until Saturday 22nd February - go see it!
February 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
belgradetheatre.bsky.social
The gloves are off, and the handbags are out!

Moira Buffini’s clever, funny, and charming political comedy Handbagged opens tomorrow night! Have you got your ticket?

👜 Handbagged
🗓️ Tue 29 Apr - Sat 3 May
🎟️ buff.ly/C04OTwC
April 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
newsupdates.bsky.social
Will soon be mark carney I hope. I don’t hear anything good about Trudeau.

We have had some good PMs. Thatcher would have handbagged Putin and Trump She was excellent at that.
March 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
syzygy523.bsky.social
Not the point of this post but using "handbagged" as a verb is fantastic 😄
June 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
percytoplis.bsky.social
But they have Brian.

You've been abandoned. The game is up.

You're a figure of derision. The last straw was being handbagged out of Norris Green Civic Centre by an 88 year old whose purse you tried to nick....
January 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
europesays.bsky.social
Handbagged-A Fascinating Jaunt Through 1980s Britain At The Queen’s Theatre. – The Havering Daily

https://www.europesays.com/1862703/

By Ruth Kettle-Frisby – Guest Writer and Community Activist Ruth is passionate about fostering positive change within the…
Handbagged-A Fascinating Jaunt Through 1980s Britain At The Queen’s Theatre. – The Havering Daily
By Ruth Kettle-Frisby – Guest Writer and Community Activist Ruth is passionate about fostering positive change within the
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February 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
manctheatrical.bsky.social
#Handbagged @thelowry.com 18th to 23rd March by
#moirabuffini fly-on-the-wall comedy about Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher has been reimagined with music featuring reworkings of 80s pop classics
Book now via: thelowry.com/whats-on/226...
Handbagged | What's On | Lowry
Moira Buffini’s clever, funny and charming political comedy unlocks the palace door, imagining the untold conversations of two of history’s most powerful women, Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth I...
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January 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
mrtrickett.bsky.social
Terrific play this evening at Theatre Royal Wakefield - funny, poignant and cutting. A trip down memory lane. Handbagged - on until Saturday. Recommended.
April 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
sutherla.bsky.social
Mrs T would have handbagged Professor Cowley for the verb "to big up"
May 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ivanaimpeachya.bsky.social
Oh, darling, the global political stage these days looks like an overstuffed handbag—full of clutter, but not an ounce of sense. Leaders are so busy juggling scandals and secrets, their priorities have gone MIA. Time to clean house or get handbagged! 💼🌀 📢
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
nigelingledew.bsky.social
'Handbagged !?'
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
hornchurchlife.bsky.social
The cast has been announced for a new show coming to Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s

Handbagged with be at The Queen’s Theatre between the 6th – 22nd February
January 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM