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- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Bush, Sophie; Daniels, Morgan
- Source
- TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press). Summer2015, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p103-113. 11p.
- Subject
- *FUNERALS
*WAKE services
*PERFORMANCE theory
- Language
- ISSN
- 1054-2043
The article looks at the performative interventions during the time of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's death and funeral. Topics mentioned include criticisms from British Prime Minister Tony Blair on street parties across various locations in England a day after Thatcher died, media scrutiny attracted by performative protests held in the wake of Thatcher's death, and details of a mock funeral held in Goldthorpe using an effigy of Thatcher in a prop coffin.