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Olivier Award-Winning
Comedy Handbagged Set For Newcastle
Handbagged
Newcastle
Theatre Royal
Monday
26th – Saturday 31st October 2015.
Direct from the West End, the smash hit
comedy Handbagged is set for
Newcastle Theatre Royal’s stage from Monday 26th – Saturday 31st October, when the relationship
between two of the country’s strongest women is explored.
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| Handbagged - Susie Blake & Kate Fahy |
Handbagged opens the clasp on the relationship
between two giants of the 20th Century. The monarch - Liz. Her most powerful
subject - Maggie. Two enduring icons born in the same year. One destined to
rule, the other elected to lead. But when the stiff upper lip softened and the
gloves came off, which one had the upper hand? Moira Buffini's celebrated new
comedy speculates on that most provocative of questions: What did the world's
most powerful women really talk about behind closed palace doors?
Handbagged first premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in
2013 where it enjoyed a sell-out 7 week run, winning the Olivier Award for
Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre (2014) and nominations for Best
New Comedy and Best Ensemble Performance at the WhatsOnStage Awards (2014). The
production transferred to the West End on 9 April 2014 where it ran for a strictly limited 17 week
season and received an Olivier Award nomination for ‘Best New Comedy’ 2015.
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| Susie Blake |
Susie Blake plays
‘Q’. Her many West End theatre credits include: When We Are Married (Garrick Theatre), Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain (Novello Theatre and on
tour), Madame Morrible in Wicked
(Apollo Victoria), Noises Off
(National Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre and UK tour); The Shakespeare Revue for the RSC (Barbican,
Vaudeville Theatre and UK tour).
Kate Fahy plays
‘T’. Her theatre credits include: After
Electra (Tricycle Theatre); The Goat
(Almeida/Apollo Theatres); Grace, Goucho
(Hampstead Theatre); and two years at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. Recent television
credits include: The Marriage of Reason
and Squalor, The Suspicions of Mr
Whicher and film credits include: Archipelago,
The Living and the Dead - for which she received best actress and best
supporting actress awards.
Emma Handy plays
‘Liz’. Her theatre credits include: Miss Julie (Chichester Festival), Thursday (Adelaide International
Festival), The Boy Who Fell Into a Book
(Soho Theatre, London Olympics 2012), Flare
Path (Haymarket Theatre), Edward
Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong),. Television and film
includes: Wire in the Blood Series 2-7
and Velvet Goldmine.
Asif Khan plays
Actor 1. His theatre credits include: Love,
Bombs & Apples, Kabaddi, Kabdaddi, Kabaddi (Arcola); Multitudes (Tricycle); The Nutcracker, The Snow Queen (Unicorn);
Queen of the Nile (Hull Truck).
Television credits include: The Dumping
Ground; Doctors; Dark Matters; Spooks; The Liquid Bomb Plot; Casualty and Going Postal.
Sanchia McCormack
plays ‘Mags’. Her theatre credits include: The
Broken Heart, Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Minotaur (Theatre Clwyd/Polka).Television includes: The Tunnell; Doctors; Broadchurch;
EastEnders; Big Bad World; Coronation Street; Law and Order.
Richard Teverson plays
Actor 2. Theatre credits include: The
Winslow Boy (Old Vic), The Doctors
Dilemma (National Theatre), Cause
Célèbre (Old Vic), After The Dance
(National Theatre), The 39 Steps
(Criterion Theatre). Television
credits include: Downton Abbey, Coalition, Jamaica Inn, The Bletchley Circle, Spies of Warsaw, Dancing On The Edge, Upstairs Downstairs, The Roman
Mysteries, Poirot-Five Little Pigs. Film credits include: Brideshead Revisited and Workhorse.
Moira Buffini’s
plays include Wonder.land, a musical with Damon Albarn,
for the Manchester International Festival and National Theatre, Women, Power And Politics for the Tricycle
Theatre, Welcome To Thebes and Dinner for the National Theatre. Her
screenplays include Tamara Drewe
directed by Stephen Frears, Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukanaga, and Byzantium directed by Neil
Jordan. She recently directed her first short film, Father.
Indhu Rubasingham,
Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre, directs. For the company, her work
includes Multitudes, The House That Will
Not Stand, Red Velvet (Tricycle/ St Ann’s Warehouse New York, Evening Standard
Award and Critics’ Circle Award). She also received the Carlton Multi-Cultural
Achievement Award for Performing Arts and in 2010 she jointly received the
Liberty Human Rights Arts Award for The
Great Game: Afghanistan. She was previously Associate Director of the Gate
Theatre, Birmingham Rep and the Young Vic.
Designs are by Richard
Kent, with lighting design by Oliver Fenwick, and sound design by Carolyn
Downing. The production is presented by Eleanor Lloyd Productions, Tricycle
London Productions and the Touring Partnership.
Tickets:
Handbagged appears at Newcastle Theatre
Royal from Monday 26th – Saturday 31st October 2015. Tickets from £12
(pay 50p less per ticket when you book online).
Tickets can be purchased from the Theatre
Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21, (calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone
company’s access charge) or select your own seat and book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk.
