Production images have been released for the upcoming production of
The Audience starring Oscar-winner
Helen Mirren which opens at the Gielgud Theatre next week (5 March).
Helen Mirren
Nathaniel Parker
Richard McCabe
For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said.
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.
Haydn Gwynne
Paul Ritter & Helen Mirren
It runs at the Gielgud Theatre until 15 June.
Rufus Wright
-All photos by Johan Persson