REVIEW: Patriots, Now Coward Theatre, London ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Peter Morgan’s play Patriots starring Tom Hollander now playing at the Noel Coward Theatre, London.
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Patriots starring Tom Hollander at Noel Coward Theatre – First Look
Take a look at Marc Brenner’s great production images for Peter Morgan’s Patriots now playing a limited season at the Noel Coward Theatre.
Patriots – Peter Morgan’s Critics’ Circle Award-winning new play in rehearsals – First Look
Rehearsal images have been released for the West End transfer of Peter Morgan’s Critics’ Circle Award-winning new play Patriots at the Noel Coward Theatre
Peter Morgan’s Patriots transfers to Noel Coward Theatre for limited season
Following a record-breaking sell-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Peter Morgan’s new play Patriots will transfer to the Noel Coward Theatre for a limited season from 26 May 2023.
Casting announced for Peter Morgan’s The Audience at Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Full casting has been announced for the Nuffield Southampton Theatres production of Peter Morgan’s The Audience.
Regional UK Theatre looking forward 2018
Mark Ludmon examines the year ahead for regional theatre in 2018. Bolton girl Maxine Peake has made her mark on TV and the London stage but she returns to her roots with her second play, Queens of the Coal Age. Based on the true story of four women in Lancashire during the miners’ strike in the 1980s, it will be at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from 28 June to 21 July. Also at the Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake will star in Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days from 25 May to 23 June. Other highlights coming up at the Royal Exchange include Julie Hesmondhalgh in Kendall Feaver’s new play The Almighty Sometimes and April De Angelis’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. A new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Michael Boyd, the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will come to the Royal Exchange … Read more
David Cameron’s Victory Prompts Update To The Audience
Following David Cameron’s victory in the UK General Election, playwright Peter Morgan has announced that he has updated his script for The Audience – his play about the weekly meetings between the Queen and her Prime Ministers. On the day Her Majesty the Queen invites David Cameron to form a new Government, the updated scene between the Queen and david Cameron, played by Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Dexter, will be performed for the first time at this evening’s performance. “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 … Read more
The Queen Gets Her Prime Ministers
BritishTheatre.com has just received a casting update for the forthcoming production of The Audience at the Apollo Theatre which will feature Kristen Scott Thomas as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said, not even to their spouses. The Audience imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister uses these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional – sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. Joining Kristen as her prime ministers 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. … Read more
