The Audience

Аудиенция

The great Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II – the world's longest-reigning living monarch. This work brought the actress Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award. The play by Peter Morgan is a virtuoso historical comedy about our days. The performance staged by Stephen Daldry, known for the films "Billy Elliot", "Hours", and "The Reader". He assembled the perfect ensemble of prominent British actors for the "cabinet of prime ministers": Edward Fox as Churchill, Richard McCabe – Harold Wilson, Paul Ritter – John Major and Nathaniel Parker – Gordon Brown.

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Actors

Королева Елизавета II

Уинстон Черчилль

Гарольд Вильсон

Маргарет Тэтчер

Джон Мейджор

Гордон Браун

Дэвид Кэмерон

Crew

Режиссёр

Художник

Художник по свету

Звукорежиссёр

Композитор

Paul Englishby

About

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.