Margaret Thanos director of A Very Expensive Poison

Margaret joins Regina to explore this award winning play based on true events.

 

Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director and actor for theatre and film, based in London. 

THE PLAY:- London, 2006. A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, drinks green tea laced with radioactive poison.
Subsequent investigations uncover a conspiracy generated from the very heart of the Russian government, and a murder probably approved by President Vladimir Putin.

In this award-winning play, based on the facts as laid out by the investigative journalist Luke Harding in his book of the same name, acclaimed writer Lucy Prebble tells a complex story of espionage and mystery.

Playing at the NEW THEATRE till 16th September.