The Audience

Hello,

You know I love National Theatre Live.  They have a new play coming up that is being shown around the world in HD.  The show has many dates posted, so you will have to find the one that works for the theatre in your community.

I will be in Victoria, June 13th, so will be looking to see if it is there then.  I hope you find it in a theatre near you.  I read in the paper that a group of drummers were walking by the theatre, their noise disrupting the performance and Mirron came out as the Queen and bawled them out on the street.  Now that is funny!  Maybe a better performance outside than the one going on inside.


Synopsis

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live. 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. 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. The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen. The Audience is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries.