MARGARET III Parts Two and Three 1990
The Plantagenet Career Woman’s Guide to Success
“Here is the end of the Shakespearean myth.
Greeted from beginning to end, not with tutored reverence, but hilarity.”
The Independent
“I laughed until mye sydes didde ache.”
The Yorkshire Post
SYNOPSIS:
A previously undiscovered history play which may or may not have been written by William Shakespeare. Although little is known about this Fourteenth Century Queen, Margaret III was obviously a blueprint for today’s professional woman, combining a successful career on the battlefield with the weekly shop. Little is know about her court jester Motley Sue. Features campaigns, coffee mornings, battles, barbeques and lots and lots of chain mail.
LipService was launched during the Thatcher years. LipService were feminists. Margaret Thatcher was not. We wanted to write a mock Shakespearean history play and Margaret Thatcher provided us with the perfect vehicle. This show was one of the hardest we have ever written, most of it is in iambic pentameter! The show launched in 1990 when Thatcher’s popularity was waning. We had several coachloads of Conservative party associations come to see the show, not quite the target audience we had intended! One night we were on tour in Northern Ireland and our stage manager Stuart came hammering on the bedroom door shouting “She’s gone!”. Thatcher had resigned and our show was no longer relevant. There was a bizarre outpouring of sympathy for the woman as people watched the footage of her leaving Downing Street in tears and audiences stopped laughing at the play. Note to self; avoid writing about topical issues!
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