The Falklands Play (2002)

Directors

Michael Samuels

Cast

Patricia Hodge, James Fox, John Standing, Michael Cochrane

The story

The play focuses on the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British government's handling of the diplomatic breakdown over the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands (Spanish:), which was the United Kingdom's largest foreign affairs emergency since the 1956 Suez Crisis. In particular, it charts the behind-the-scenes dealings within Thatcher's Conservative government and between it and its military and the United States and Argentine governments in the diplomatic breakdown that gave way to war and an eventual British victory. In response to the Argentine invasion, the Thatcher government calls for a total maritime…

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