The cab drivers Mansha and Raf argue over this person’s death in Ishy Din’s play Approaching Empty. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this person. The narrator becomes complicit in the replacement boilerman’s plot to kill this person in a Hilary Mantel story.
ANSWER: Margaret Thatcher [or Margaret Hilda Thatcher; or Margaret Roberts; accept “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher”]
[10h] In this play, Joyce says her Thatcher-liking sister would have “liked Hitler if he was a woman.” Angie’s question of “Mum?” near the end of this play is met with “No… it’s Aunty” by her biological mother.
ANSWER: Top Girls (by Caryl Churchill)
[10e] Unlike most of his contemporaries, this playwright admired Thatcher’s policies, causing controversy. He wrote the absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
ANSWER: Tom Stoppard [or Tomáš Sträussler]
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