No Flowers: Performative Interventions “at the Moment of” Margaret Thatcher’s Passing

Bush, Sophie; Daniels, Morgan

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No Flowers: Performative Interventions “at the Moment of” Margaret Thatcher’s Passing

Sophie Bush,

Sophie Bush

Sophie Bush is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University and has taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield, and Manchester Metropolitan. Her research and teaching interests lie in the history, practice, and politics of contemporary British theatre. Her doctorate, on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was awarded by the University of Sheffield, and her first book, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama (2013). She maintains an involvement with practical theatre-making as a director and devisor. [email protected].

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Morgan Daniels received his PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, with a doctoral thesis entitled “The effects of ‘antiestablishment’ BBC comedy on politicians, the public and broadcasting values c.1939–73.” He teaches British history at Queen Mary and lectures on history and the media at Arcadia University’s London Center. [email protected].

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Sophie Bush

Sophie Bush is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University and has taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield, and Manchester Metropolitan. Her research and teaching interests lie in the history, practice, and politics of contemporary British theatre. Her doctorate, on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was awarded by the University of Sheffield, and her first book, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama (2013). She maintains an involvement with practical theatre-making as a director and devisor. [email protected].

Morgan Daniels

Morgan Daniels received his PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, with a doctoral thesis entitled “The effects of ‘antiestablishment’ BBC comedy on politicians, the public and broadcasting values c.1939–73.” He teaches British history at Queen Mary and lectures on history and the media at Arcadia University’s London Center. [email protected].

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2015

TDR/The Drama Review (2015) 59 (2 (226)): 103–113.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00452

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Why is “respect” the order of the day for the dead, such as Margaret Thatcher, upon their dying? Was Walter Benjamin right when he pointed to death and its trimmings as that which lends authority to the storyteller? And how might performance short circuit narratives so motored?

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