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NT Live: The Audience
by Peter Morgan
June 15, 2013 through June 30, 2013
Saturday June 15, Saturday June 22, Saturday June 29, & Sunday June 30. Two shows each day at 2pm and 7pm.
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Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live.
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. 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.
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 reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen.
The Audience 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.
Single tickets $20, Seniors 65+ $18, Students $15 (plus ticketing fees)
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Cast:
Helen Mirren
Michael Elwyn
Haydn Gwynne
Richard McCabe
Nathaniel Parker
Paul Ritter
Rufus Wright
Edward Fox
David Peart
Geoffrey Beevers
Bebe Cave
Maya Gerber
Nell Williams
Charlotte Moore
Harry Feltham
Matt Plumb
Spencer Kitchen
Elaine Solomon
Jonathan Coote
Ian Houghton
| Artistic:
Author: Peter Morgan
Director: Stephen Daldry
Designer: Bob Crowley
Lighting Designer: Rick Fisher
Sound Designer: Paul Arditti
Video Designer: Ian William Galloway
Composer: Paul Englishby
Hair and Make-Up Designer: Ivana Primorac
Casting Director: Nina Gold
Children’s Casting: Jessica Ronane
Associate Director: Justin Martin
| Reviews:
'Wholly tremendous.' Daily Telegraph 'The first surefire, unstoppable hit of the year.' Observer 'Funny and truthful, good-hearted, spiky, full of surprises. I loved every minute.' The Times 'Stephen Daldry delivers a pitch-perfect production.' Daily Telegraph 'Helen Mirren dazzles again as Queen.' Metro 'Helen Mirren is superb.' Evening Standard 'Helen Mirren once again gives a faultless performance.' Guardian 'A clever and stylish play.' Daily Mail
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NT Live: This House
by James Graham
June 16, 2013 through June 23, 2013
Sunday June 16 at 1pm and 5pm; Sunday June 23 at 1pm and 5pm
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1974. The UK faces economic crisis and a hung parliament. In a culture hostile to cooperation, it's a period when votes are won or lost by one, when there are fist fights in the bars and when sick MPs are carried through the lobby to register their vote. Set in the political engine rooms of Westminster, James Graham's biting and energetic new play This House strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to manoeuvre a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.
Single tickets $20, Seniors 65+ $18, Students $15 (plus ticketing fees)
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Cast:
Gunnar Cauthery
Phil Daniels
Reece Dinsdale
Charles Edwards
Vincent Franklin
Christopher Godwin
Andrew Havill
Ed Hughes
Helena Lymbery
Lauren O'Neill
Matthew Pidgeon
Richard Ridings
Giles Taylor
Tony Turner
Rupert Vansittart
Julian Wadham
| Artistic:
Director: Jeremy Herrin
Designer: Rae Smith
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Choreographer: Scott Ambler
Sound Designer: Ian Dickinson
| Reviews:
'A funny and moving political epic. Another hit is born.' The Times 'James Graham's superb new drama held everyone enthralled throughout... Funny, touching and cliff-hangingly suspenseful.' Daily Telegraph 'Jeremy Herrin's production recaptures, with abundant theatricality, the mayhem of Westminster politics.' Guardian 'Aided by helmer Herrin's pedal-to-the-floor pace, Graham kicks off with the kind of action-packed exposition for which The West Wing was celebrated.' Variety 'Astute, funny and hugely enjoyable.' Financial Times |
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