The Audience

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience. For 60 years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace in 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 code 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. They witness the arc of the second Elizabethan Age, from young mother to grandmother. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while the Queen 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, and 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.

“The Audience is going to be one of the theatrical highlights of 2013.”
- Daily Mail

“Funny and truthful, good-hearted, spiky, full of surprises. I loved every minute.”
The Times

“Helen Mirren, brilliantly reprising her Oscar-winning role.”
The Independent