The Audience - Peter Morgan updates script following the General Election
Casting update
FOLLOWING the General Election and on the day The Queen invites David Cameron to form a new Government, Peter Morgan has updated his script for The Audience – a play about the weekly meeting between the Queen and her Prime Ministers.
The updated scene between The Queen and David Cameron, played by Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Dexter, will be performed for the first time this evening (May 8, 2015). As Peter Morgan explains:
“In the same week as we opened The Audience it’s been particularly interesting to have experienced such a dramatic general election. This morning I have rewritten the scene in my play between The Queen and David Cameron to reflect the events of last night and this morning. Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Dexter will be rehearsing this new dialogue this afternoon and I hope tonight’s audience in particular will enjoy our immediate response to today’s results.”
Previously Posted: Further casting has been announced for the new and updated version of Peter Morgan’s The Audience, which runs at the Apollo Theatre from May 5 (previews from April 21) to July 25, 2015.
Joining previously announced Kristin Scott Thomas as The Queen are David Calder as Winston Churchill, Mark Dexter as David Cameron, Michael Gould as John Major, Gordon Kennedy as Gordon Brown, Sylvestra Le Touzel as Margaret Thatcher, David Robb as Anthony Eden and Nicholas Woodeson as Harold Wilson.
They in turn are joined by David Peart as the Equerry and Charlotte Moore as Bobo MacDonald and Private Secretary, with Marnie Brighton, Madeleine Jackson-Smith and Izzy Meikle-Small alternating the role of Young Elizabeth and Matt Plumb and Harry Feltham as the footmen.
David Calder has worked extensively for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His many other theatre credits include Home (Theatre Royal Bath), the title role in King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Duke of York’s Theatre), Five Gold Rings (Almeida Theatre) and Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse). He can currently be seen in Jennifer Haley’s The Nether at the Duke of York’s Theatre.
His screen credits include Cuckoo, Utopia S2, Houdini, The Wrong Mans, Mr Selfridge, Lewis, Titanic, The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Wallis and Edward and New Tricks (TV); Lady in the Van, Queen of the Desert, Rush, United, Red Riding 1980, Goya’s Ghosts and Perfume (film).
Mark Dexter’s theatre credits include Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Inherit the Wind (Old Vic), Time and the Conways (National Theatre) and The Glass Menagerie (Donmar Warehouse).
Later this year, in the run up to the general election, Dexter will play David Cameron on television in a Channel 4 film, Coalition. His other screen credits include 24: Live Another Day, Babylon, Bletchley Circle, Mr Selfridge, Ripper Street, Law & Order, Silent Witness, Spooks, The Infinite World of HG Wells, Monarch of the Glen and A Dance To The Music of Time (TV); The Invisible Woman, From Hell, 12 Days of Terror, She Stoops to Conquer, Peter Warlock and Nicholas Nickleby (film).
Michael Gould’s theatre credits include Cruel and Tender and Hamlet (Young Vic), The Ugly One (Royal Court), In Extremis and King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Crucible (Sheffield Theatre), The Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Count of Monte Cristo (Royal Exchange and many credits for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He can currently be seen at Wyndham’s Theatre in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
His screen work includes The Conversation, Lucan, Silk, Mr Sloane, Bletchley Circle, Wallander, Ashes to Ashes, The Long Walk to Finchley, Waking the Dead, Wire in the Blood and State of Play (TV); Our Kind of Traitor, Private Peaceful and Frankenstein (film).
Gordon Kennedy’s theatre credits include The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre), The Corstorphine Road Nativity (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), Full House and The Hairless Diva (Watford Palace Theatre), Ugly Rumours (Tricycle Theatre) and Waiting for Gogsie and Mr Hargreaves Did It (Edinburgh Fringe).
On screen, his credits include Endeavour II, Breathless, Being Human, Common People, Casualty, Doctors, Hacks, Combat Hospital, Sherlock – Hound of the Baskervilles, Skins, Taggart, Robin Hood, The Bill, You Can Choose Your Friends, Where the Heart Is, Kiss Me Kate, Glasgow Kiss, Absolutely, Atletico Partick, Shelley, The Insiders and Inspector Morse (TV); Borderlands, Red Faction Origins, Snakeboy, With or Without You and Just Like a Woman (film).
Sylvestra Le Touzel has worked extensively for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her other stage credits include Les Parents Terribles and Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse), Topless Mum (Tricycle Theatre), Wild East, Ourselves Alone, Unity and Glasshouses (Royal Court), Hayfever (Savoy Theatre), An Inspector Calls (Aldwych Theatre), Imagine Drowning (Hampstead Theatre) and The Illusion and Marya (Old Vic).
Her screen credits include Utopia, The Thick of It, Secret State, Parade’s End, Northanger Abbey, Housewife 49, Vanity Fair, The Uninvited, The Gambling Man, Between the Lines, Mansfield Park, Crimes and Donal and Sally (TV); Mr Turner, Cloud Atlas, Happy-Go-Lucky, Amazing Grace and The Short and Curlies (film).
David Robb’s theatre credits include Hamlet (English Touring Theatre), Private Lives, Armstrong’s Last Goodnight and Same Time Next Year (Royal Lyceum Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew and The Beggar’s Opera (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Colour of Justice (Tricycle Theatre), Abelard and Heloise (Wyndham’s Theatre) and An Ideal Husband (Old Vic).
His screen work includes Wolf Hall, Downton Abbey, Garrow’s Law, Sharpe’s Peril, The Crow Road, First Amongst Equals, The Legend of King Arthur, Wuthering Heights, The Winslow Boy, I, Claudius and The Glittering Prizes (TV); Sacrifice, The Four Feathers, Regeneration, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Young Victoria and From Time to Time (film).
Nicholas Woodeson’s theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman), Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre), The Homecoming and Jubilee (Royal Shakespeare Company), Rocket to the Moon (National Theatre), An Inspector Calls (Novello Theatre), Legal Fiction (Theatre Royal Bath), Arab-Israeli Cookbook and Moonlight & Magnolias (Tricycle Theatre), Jumpers (National Theatre), Mr Peter’s Connection (Almeida Theatre), Art (West End), The Late Middle Classes (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Editing Process and Berlin Bertie (Royal Court), American Buffalo (Young Vic) and Habeas Corpus (Donmar Warehouse).
His screen credits include The Eichmann Show, George Gently, Mapp and Lucia, New Tricks, The Honourable Woman, The Escape Artist, Silk, Shameless, Rome, Doc Martin, The Last Detective, A Touch of Frost, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Great Expectations and Pie in the Sky (TV); Race, Mr Turner, Skyfall, Pope Joan, Amazing Grace, Conspiracy, Topsy-Turvy, The Avengers, Shooting Fish, The Man Who Knew Too Little, The Russia House and Heaven’s Gate (film).
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