The Audience 2015
Run Time:
Two hours and 15 minutes
Opened: March 8, 2015Two hours and 15 minutes
Closing: June 28, 2015
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Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (Broadway)
236 West 45th St. New York, NY
For sixty years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. No one knows what they discuss, not even their spouses. Academy Award winner Helen Mirren returns to Broadway, and the throne, in a riveting new play by Peter Morgan, the writer of the Academy Award-nominated film, The Queen. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, An Inspector Calls), THE AUDIENCE takes theatregoers behind the walls of Buckingham Palace and into the private chambers of Queen Elizabeth II as she meets with each of her Prime Ministers, from when she was a young mother to now as a Great Grandmother. From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, through the charm offensive of Tony Blair right up to today's meetings with the current incumbent David Cameron, the Queen advises her Prime Ministers on all matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch. You cannot miss the performance that had London on its feet: Helen Mirren in THE AUDIENCE.
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Review: Helen Mirren astonishing in splendid 'The Audience'
9 / 10
Mirren, who is becoming something of an expert on playing English royalty, creates an astonishing portrayal, by turns prickly and chummy, regal and regular, insecure and temperamental. She nails the fussiness and strange high-pitched voice but also reveals a frustrated yet resigned monarch quietly pining for a different life. Her quick changes often happen onstage with a new outfit and wig. But perhaps the best stitching is from Morgan, who nimbly fits in exposition and big swaths of history into a coherent and touching portrait of power and majesty. And, with Mirren, even ardent anti-monarchists will clap.
Review: Helen Mirren brings Her Majesty to Broadway in 'The Audience'
8 / 10
Yet in Peter Morgan's play, which is deftly directed by Stephen Daldry and gorgeously designed by Bob Crowley, the subtle transformations are just as compelling as the grand ones, thanks to a consummate performance by the lead actress. This is Mirren's show, and she fully lives up to the expectation created by the buzz from her Olivier Award-winning turn in the West End production of the play in 2013.
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