There are not two, but four handbags on stage for much of Moira Buffini's witty, sprightly play about the relationship between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher. Buffini's play predates The Audience but enters the same territory. We don't know what passed between them and Buffini frequently reminds us that the whole of the play is speculation by creating a light-hearted, meta-theatrical set-up, in which characters step in and out of the narrative, argue about the structure and even squabble over parts. Fenella Woolgar catches precisely the younger Thatcher's mannerisms, as does Stella Gonet the style of the battle-hardened Iron Lady; Clare Holman plays the quietly sceptical, understated younger monarch, while Marion Bailey, as her older self, makes brilliant use of the tiniest of facial twitches to convey disapproval or doubt.
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