Synopsis
The Audience - ACTING EDITION
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
Large Mixed Cast
The discussions are utterly secret - even to the royal and ministerial spouses
Here Peter Morgan imagines these meetings over the decades of the Queen's remarkable reign, through Prime Ministers from Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher to the 2015 incumbent David Cameron
An award-winning tour-de-force for Helen Mirren, it gives a glimpse into the woman behind the crown, and the moments that have shaped the modern monarchy
CAST
M9,F4 (doubling)
REVIEWS
"What a great if faintly guilty pleasure this play provesIn this marvellous piece, [Morgan] penetrates at least some of [the Queen's] mystery, with compassion, grace, affection and humour" ~ The Telegraph
"The surprise element in Peter Morgan's highly entertaining playis its imaginative range, lack of sentimentality and incisive intelligence" ~ WhatsOnStage.com
"Hugely enjoyable and cumulatively very affecting" ~ The Independent
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