Miners back Margaret Thatcher funeral play
The Shaw Theatre is to stage a two-week run of Maggie's End, a play by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood, that begins with the state funeral of the former prime minister and is funded by trade unions including the NUM, which led the miners' strike in the 1980s.
"There's little doubt that most Labour supporters would see a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher as the ultimate betrayal by their party and that to acknowledge her in this way would reopen many of the sores of the 1980s," says Wood. "We wanted to explore what the repercussions of this could be, particularly in the north of England, where many communities were decimated during the Thatcher years."..
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"There's little doubt that most Labour supporters would see a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher as the ultimate betrayal by their party and that to acknowledge her in this way would reopen many of the sores of the 1980s," says Wood. "We wanted to explore what the repercussions of this could be, particularly in the north of England, where many communities were decimated during the Thatcher years."..