King Charles III
- Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium/21st Century
- 8M, 4F
- ISBN: 9781848424418
Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Stage
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play
Winner! Olivier Awards South Bank Sky Arts Theater Award for Best New Play (2015)
Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule?
REVIEWS:
"Outstanding and provocative… the most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lèse-majesté that British theatre has ever seen."
Telegraph
"Bold, brilliant and unstoppably entertaining… an intelligent, empathetic, moving look at the power and limitations of the modern monarchy… theatre doesn't get much better than this."
The Times
"Extraordinary… a meaty, hilarious, dizzyingly audacious state of the nation political thriller."
Time Out
"Royally entertaining… raises fascinating questions about the future of the monarchy."
The Guardian
"Scintillating and highly ambitious... a brilliant, provocative piece of drama."
Financial Times
"Wonderfully original... Bartlett's brilliant text pulses with Shakespearean resonances... a right royal triumph."
The Stage
"Pitch-perfect… bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining."
Independent
"Brilliantly ambitious… deliciously smart… [the] script is a witty amalgam of Shakespearean rhythms and sharp modern colloquialisms."
Exeunt Magazine
Characters
- Casting: 8M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Large cast
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