Wednesday, 11 June 2025

King Charles III


King Charles III, Wyndham's Theatre, 2014.

Cast: Tim Pigott-Smith, Katie Brayben, Oliver Chris, Richard Goulding, Nyasha Hatendi, Adam James, Margot Leicester, Miles Richardson, Tom Robertson, Nicholas Rowe, Tafline Steen, Lydia Wilson.

Writer: Mike Bartlett
Director: Rupert Goold

I loved this which wasn't necessarily a given as I have mixed feelings about the Royal Family and it's written in iambic pentameter (I think). But it was a brilliant play. Interestingly I bought the DVD of it years later and couldn't bring myself to watch it in case it wasn't as good, and now he's actually king I think the moment has definitely passed. So this just existed, for me at least, in the moment I saw it and in memory which is sometimes how theatre needs to be.

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