King Charles III: West End Edition

by Mike Bartlett

Overview

Winner, 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play
Winner, 2015 London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play

Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule?

Mike Bartlett's controversial "future history play" explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family. Drawing on the style and structure of a Shakespearean history play, King Charles III opened at London’s Almeida Theatre, directed by its Artistic Director Rupert Goold, in 2014, before transferring to the West End. This brilliant, provocative play has shocked and thrilled audiences and critics alike, and will transfer to Broadway in Fall 2015.

"Dazzling... The most engrossing, entertaining and insightful new history play in decades." - New York Times

"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 (London)

"Extraordinary... A meaty, hilarious, dizzyingly audacious state of the nation political thriller." - Time Out London

Mike Barlett is an Olivier Award-winning playwright whose plays have been seen at theatres including the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in the UK, and off-Broadway in New York.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848424418
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	03/17/2015
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mike Bartlett exploded onto the scene in 2007 with the premiere of My Child at the Royal Court. Since then he has gone on to become one of his generation’s most inventive and successful dramatists with plays such as Artefacts (2008), Cock (2009), Earthquakes in London (2010) and 13 (2011). 2012 saw the London premieres of Love, Love, Love, Medea and Chariots of Fire, which transferred from the Hampstead Theatre to the West End. His play Bull opened at the Sheffield Crucible in 2013 and transferred to New York as part of last years Brits off Broadway season. Another new play, An Intervention, also opens in April 2014. Mike joined NHB’s list of leading playwrights from Methuen last year. He lives in East London.