National Theatre Live: The Audience

8.3

122 minutes

6/12/2013

Overview

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.

Cast List

Helen Mirren
as The Queen
Michael Elwyn
as Anthony Eden
Haydn Gwynne
as Margaret Thatcher
Richard McCabe
as Harold Wilson
Nathaniel Parker
as Gordon Brown
Paul Ritter
as John Major
Rufus Wright
as David Cameron
Edward Fox
as Winston Churchill
David Peart
as James Callaghan / Private Secretary
Geoffrey Beevers
as Equerry
Nell Williams
as Young Elizabeth
Charlotte Moore
as Bobo MacDonald / Private Secretary
Harry Feltham
as Junior Equerry / Footman
Matt Plumb
as Junior Equerry / Footman
Spencer Kitchen
as The Queen's Dresser
Elaine Solomon
as The Queen's Dresser
Jonathan Coote
as Cecil Beaton / Detective
Ian Houghton
as Detective / Policeman