National Theatre Live: "The Audience"
Dame Helen Mirren returns to her famous portrayal of “The Queen” to star in Peter Morgan's play The Audience, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Hours).
Location
Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Dame Helen Mirren returns to her famous portrayal of “The Queen” to star in Peter Morgan's play The Audience, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Hours). For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. 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.
Location
Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
