The Audience by Peter Morgan
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. 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 by Peter Morgan premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in March 2013. It returned to the Apollo Theatre, London, in this revised version in April 2015.
Peter Morgan is the creator and showrunner of The Crown (Netflix), winner of multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. His plays include Frost/Nixon (and the screenplay of the Oscar-nominated film), The Audience and Patriots, which all played in the West End and on Broadway. His screenplays include the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated The Queen, The Last King of Scotland and The Damned United.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571326624 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571326625 |
| Title | The Audience |
| Author | Peter Morgan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2015-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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