This adaptation is not exactly subtle, but, just like the play’s title, it’s an interesting provocation On 6 August 1983, the author Hilary Mantel looked out of the window of her flat in Windsor and saw Margaret Thatcher . The prime minister was strolling through the grounds of a nearby private hospital, where she had just undergone an eye operation. Mantel’s imagination started whirring: wouldn’t her flat be the perfect spot should a sniper wish to take out the PM? “Immediately your eye