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Performance

VenueGielgud Theatre
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From15th February 2013
Opened5th March 2013
To15th June 2013
WhenMon-Sat 19:30. Wed, Sat Mats 14:30
PricesFrom £10.00. To £59.00.
Gielgud Theatre (V395)
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  • Date of change: 26 Feb 13 - T384882136
  • Date of change: 2 Nov 12 - T384882136
  • Date of change: 21 Sep 12 - T384882136

The Audience

The Audience

Work:: The Audience (S0228355437)

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.
Author Peter Morgan

Production:: (T384882136)

Robert Hardy has withdrawn from playing the part of Winston Churchill due to injury.
Producer Matthew Byam Shaw (for Playful Productions)
Producer Robert Rox
Producer Andy Harries
Director Stephen Daldry
Design Bob Crowley
Lighting Rick Fisher
Design Ian William Galloway (video)
Sound Paul Arditti
Performer Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth II)
Performer Haydn Gwynne (Margaret Thatcher)
Performer Edward Fox (Winston Churchill)
Performer Michael Elwyn (Anthony Eden)
Performer Haydn Gwynne (Margaret Thatcher)
Performer Richard McCabe (Harold Wilson)
Performer Nathaniel Parker (Gordon Brown)
Performer Paul Ritter (John Major)
Performer Rufus Wright (David Cameron)

Listing:: L0570541542




Production details

Robert Hardy has withdrawn from playing the part of Winston Churchill due to injury.

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News: The Audience
21Sep12: Stephen Daldry to Direct Peter Morgan's 'The Audience' with Helen Mirren
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