Margaret Thatcher gets the Spitting Image treatment … again

Steve Nallon plays Margaret Thatcher in Jonathan Maitland’s play Dead Sheep

It may be 20 years since the demise of ITV’s Spitting Image, but the show’s voice of Margaret Thatcher, Steve Nallon, can still nail the Iron Lady’s particular timbre, as the trailer for Nallon’s new theatre show, Dead Sheep, shows. The play – which Monkey fans will remember is written by ITV’s Tonight journalist Jonathan Maitland and stars Nallon – covers the circumstances behind the famous Geoffrey Howe speech which led to the fall of Margaret Thatcher. Maitland consulted Howe and his wife Elspeth while writing it and it is timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Howe’s verbal assassination of his leader. Is Maitland having a laugh with the opening night though? It is in preview at north London’s Park Theatre from, wait for it, 1 April.