The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

02 May 2026

Everyman Theatre

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Based on the incendiary short story by Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher is darkly funny and dangerously tense – a gripping psychological thriller created for Liverpool, the Everyman and our politically violent times. Adapted for the stage by Alexandra Wood and directed by John Young, this daring world premiere is an unmissable event – an audacious game of power, class and conviction that asks the biggest ‘what if?’ of them all.

It’s late summer, 1983. Out in the street, the world is waiting to greet Margaret Thatcher as she emerges from hospital. Just routine surgery – what on earth could go wrong? But here in this room her life is up for deadly debate… and history is holding its breath.