What do Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton and Margaret Thatcher have in common?

Well, apart from international notoriety and dedicated fan bases, they’ve all been impersonated by drag queens.

Yes… that does include the former Prime Minister – and believe it or not, she’s one of the most popular acts on the scene.

For the last 12 years, Matt Tedford is one such performer who has put on the Iron Lady’s wig and armed himself with her handbag to entertain the crowds.

The play, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho, is based on an alternate reality around the introduction of Section 28 – Thatcher’s bill which banned schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’. It fuelled stigma and led to young LGBTQ+ people feeling isolated in their own schools for over a decade. Matt’s play turns this history on its hea

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