A Liverpool theatre has caused consternation after staging an adaptation of author Dame Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, just one week after a gunman was accused of trying to shoot US President Donald Trump.
The short story, published a year after the former Conservative Prime Minister’s death in 2013, imagined a plot to kill Thatcher and drew widespread criticism across the political spectrum.
Now playwright Alexandra Wood has adapted the plot and the production is on stage at the Liverpool Everyman theatre.
The decision has sparked anger and concern among some for its focus on violence against a politician, following the murders
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