Tim Pigott - Smith And Cast Signed King Charles III Broadway Cast Signed Playbill
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:12551224 | Original/Reproduction: Original |
While Prince William dithers, his steely and pragmatic wife, Kate, orchestrates a palace coup to save the monarchy and prevent Britain from sliding into civil war.So goes the audacious plot of “King Charles III, ” a new play by Mike Bartlett and directed by Robert Goold. The critic for The New Statesman called it the “boldest and most provocative play about the royal family in British theatrical history, ” adding, “If the Lord Chamberlain still policed the stage, Bartlett wou...ld be in the Tower, ” a reference to the royal official who had the power to censor plays until 1968. The play won the 2015 Olivier award for Best New Play. Written in iambic pentameter, modeled on Shakespearean histories like “Richard II” but set in the near future, the play explores what might happen if a British monarch bucked centuries of tradition and refused to rubber-stamp the will of Parliament. In the process, Mr. Bartlett imagines Queen Elizabeth’s funeral; Diana, Princess of Wales, as a ghost; and Prince Harry running off with a grungy art student he meets at the London nightclub Boujis. She takes him to Dans le Noir, a London restaurant where patrons eat in the dark, and there he is mistaken for a real estate agent. Part fantasy, part comedy, “King Charles III” is still intended as a serious inquiry into the role the monarchy plays in Britain. The playbill was signed by Tim Pigott Smith, Miles Richardson, Richard Goulding, Oliver Chris, Nyasha Hatendi, Sally Scott, Margot Leicester, Lydia Wilson, Adam James, Tafline Steen and Tom Robertson. The play was staged by the Almeida Theatre Production at the Music Box theatre with previews starting on October 10, 2015 and will end on January 31, 2016. Because the play had such a brief run signed items are very hard to find!!! The
