One of the most watched NT Live releases of all time. Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the much-anticipated return of the Olivier Award–winning hit production, that inspired Netflix’s The Crown.
Peter Morgan's play shows a series of the Queen's weekly meetings with various prime ministers to have held office during her reign, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron. For sixty years she 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. '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. Directed by Stephen Daldry ('Billy Elliot', 'The Hours').
180m including interval.
