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Performance

VenueThe Watermill Theatre
TownNewbury
CountyBerkshire
From20th September 2024
To2nd November 2024
WhenMon-Sat 19:30. Thu, Sat Mats 14:30 (excl Sep 21)
The Watermill Theatre (V733)
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Production Changes

Previous details associated with this item and date of change.
  • Date of change: 30 Aug 24 - T969064658

The King's Speech

The King's Speech

Work:: The King's Speech (S946917921)

Bertie, the Duke of York, was never meant to be King. Shy, fragile, afflicted with profound stuttering, his occasional public speeches were a torment to himself and worse to those forced to listen. When his older brother David, now Edward VIII, abdicates his throne in exchange for the bed of a twice divorced American with Nazi sympathies, Bertie s wife Elizabeth turns to a Harley Street speech therapist from Australia: Lionel Logue. What transpires in the privacy of Logue s consultation room is the heart of this drama. Can Bertie, the reluctant King, be ?cured to get through his Coronation, and even more daunting, speak via the BBC to anxious millions throughout the world, rallying the troops, a nation, and an Empire to defend democracy? At the crucial moment comes the disclosure that Logue is not what he seems. Carefully researched, this is the true story of a friendship that changed history.
Author David Seidler

Production:: (T969064658)

Producer The Watermill
Director Emma Butler
Design Bretta Gerecke
Lighting Ryan Day
Sound Robin Colyer
Music Robin Colyer
Director Tyler Holland (assistant)
Other Tom Nickson (production manager)
Stage ManagerCat Pewsey
Stage ManagerEleanor Walton (deputy)
Stage ManagerLeila Stephenson (assistant)
Performer Peter Sandys-Clarke (Bertie)
Performer Arthur Hughes (Lionel Logue)
Performer Aamira Challenger (Elizabeth)
Performer Rosa Hesmondhalgh (Myrtle Logue / Wallis Simpson)
Performer Christopher Naylor (Cosmo Lang)
Performer Stephen Rahman Hughes (David / Stanley Baldwin)
Performer Jim Kitson (King George V / Winston Churchill)

Listing:: L0973422935




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Special Performances


  • 18 Oct 24 Touch Tour
  • 18 Oct 24 Audio Described
  • 18 Oct 24 Captioned
  • 26 Oct 24 Touch Tour
  • 26 Oct 24 Audio Described
  • 2 Nov 24 Captioned
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