The Audience starring Helen Mirren broadcast to cinemas

Peter Morgan‘s new play The Audience, starring Helen Mirren as the Queen, will be live streamed to cinemas on 13 June 2013 via the NT Live initiative.

This will be NT Live’s third partnership with an out-of-house production and will play live from the West End’s Gielgud
Theatre, with dates and times varying internationally.

Directed by Stephen Daldry, the play breaks the contract of silence and reveals a series of
pivotal meetings between various Downing Street incumbents and their
Queen.

From Churchill to Cameron, each conversation reveals a soundboard
and confessional moment that shows a complex side to the Queen who
consoles, advises and on occasions, teases. From young mother to
grandmother these private audiences chart the arc of the second
Elizabethan Age.

Mirren won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Morgan-scripted film The Queen.

The cast also includes Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as
Margaret Thatcher, Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill, Richard McCabe as
Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John
Major and Rufus Wright as David Cameron;  The Equerry is Geoffrey
Beevers with Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber and Nell Williams alternating as
Young Elizabeth.

Currently booking to 15 June 2013, The Audience is designed by Bob Crowley with lighting
is by Rick Fisher and sound  by Paul Arditti. It is produced in the
West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and
Andy Harries.

– Katie Parker