Synopsis
The Audience - FABER EDITION
$12.99 Published by Faber & Faber
12 Male 4 Female
It is private and both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said
Not even to their spouses
The Audience breaks this contract of silence
It 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 premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in March 2013 with the following cast:
Helen Mirren - Queen Elizabeth II
Michael Elwyn - Sir Anthony Eden
Haydn Gwynne - Margaret Thatcher
Richard McCabe - Harold Wilson
Nathaniel Parker - Gordon Brown
Paul Ritter - John Major
Rufus Wright - David Cameron
Edward Fox - Winston Churchill
David Peart - James Callaghan/Private Secretary
Geoffrey Beevers - Equerry
Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber, Nell Williams - Young Elizabeth
Charlotte Moore - Bobo MacDonald/Private Secretary
Harry Feltham, Matt Plumb - Junior Equerries/Footmen
Spencer Kitchen, Elaine Solomon - Queen's Dressers
Jonathan Coote - Cecil Beaton/Detective
Ian Houghton - Detective/Policeman
This is the FABER EDITION - for the ACTING EDITION
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