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The Audience
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Synopsis
Oscar winner Helen Mirren once more plays the role of the Queen, this time in Peter Morgan's new play The Audience directed by Stephen Daldry.
Joining Mirren are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown and Rufus Wright as David Cameron, alongside Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill and Paul Ritter as John Major.
For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen.
From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. In turn, the Queen can't help but reveal her own self as she advises, consoles and, on occasion, teases. From young mother to grandmother these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.
Don't miss booking your tickets to see Mirren as Queen once more.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 5 March 2013
"What fine hands the country is in!" exclaims the Queen, sarcastically, after John Major has confessed he only passed three O-Levels and she, of course, "home educated" but treated as a girl not worth educating, can claim none at all.
The surprise element in Peter Morgan's highly entertaining new play, speculating on what conversations Her Majesty might have had in the weekly Tuesday afternoon private meeting with her Prime Ministers (although Tony Blair changed it to Wednesdays), is its imaginative range, lack of sentimentality and incisive intelligence.
And in Helen Mirren's brilliant but un-showy performance - magically still and dignified, with a glancing look of either regret or critical intervention despatched along her own left shoulder and arm - we see a...
Latest User Review
Paul Wallis - 26 April 2013:
Excellent staging and performances. The various Prime Ministers did often slip into caricature but it matters little as this is all about Helen Mirren who gives a stunning performance. ...
Cast
Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth II)
Haydn Gwynne (Margaret Thatcher)
Edward Fox (Winston Churchill)
Michael Elwyn (Anthony Eden)
Haydn Gwynne (Margaret Thatcher)
Richard McCabe (Harold Wilson)
Nathaniel Parker (Gordon Brown)
Paul Ritter (John Major)
Rufus Wright (David Cameron)
Creative
Peter Morgan (Author)
Matthew Byam Shaw (for Playful Productions) (Producer)
Robert Rox (Producer)
Andy Harries (Producer)
Stephen Daldry (Director)
Bob Crowley (Design)
Rick Fisher (Lighting)
Ian William Galloway (video) (Design)
Paul Arditti (Sound)
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