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 lese-majeste 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.
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