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AWARD-WINNING
WEST-END DRAMA HEADS TO NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL
King Charles III
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Monday 28th September – Saturday 3rd October 2015.
Following sell-out runs at the Almeida theatre and
in the West End, the
multi-award-winning new play King Charles
III embarks on a UK tour this autumn,
coming to Newcastle Theatre Royal from Monday 28th September – Saturday 3rd October 2015.
King Charles III takes us to a time in the future when the Queen is
dead and after a lifetime of waiting, Prince Charles ascends the throne. A future
of power. But how to rule? Mike Bartlett's play explores the people underneath
the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. The show has this year been
awarded the Olivier Award, Critics Choice and South Bank Sky Arts Award for
Best New Play.
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Robert
Powell
Photo:
Peter Simpkin
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Taking the lead role of King
Charles is Robert Powell, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth (which won him a BAFTA
nomination for Best Actor) and as series regular Mark Williams in Holby City. Powell’s theatre credits
include Singin' in the Rain (Palace
Theatre), Ubu Roi and Pirates (both Royal Court), Travesties
(RSC), Tovarich
(Chichester Festival Theatre), and more recently a touring production of Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.
Written by Mike Bartlett, who
previously collaborated with Rupert Goold on Earthquakes in London and Decade.
His other plays include An Intervention,
Artefacts (for which he won the Old Vic New Voices Award), Cock (which was awarded an Olivier Award
in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre at the Royal Court), Love,
Love, Love (which won Best New Play at the 2011 Theatre Awards UK) and most
recently Game.
King Charles III is directed by the Almeida Theatre’s artistic
director Rupert Goold with Whitney Mosery and designed by Tom Scutt, with music
composed by Jocelyn Pook, lighting by Jon Clark and sound by Paul Arditti.
Almeida
Artistic Director Rupert Goold has most recently directed The Merchant of Venice (originally produced for the Royal Shakespeare
Company), American Psycho: A new
musical thriller and King Charles III for the Almeida Theatre, and will direct Medea this Autumn. King Charles III transferred to the West End
at the Wyndham’s Theatre and won an Olivier Award for Best New Play, and will
this year transfer to Broadway and embark on a UK tour.
Elsewhere
Goold’s work includes Made in Dagenham
in the West End. He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005
until 2013 where his work included The Effect,
ENRON, Earthquakes in London and Decade.
Other theatre credits include The Last
Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida, Macbeth
at Chichester Festival Theatre, in the West End
and on Broadway and No Man’s Land at
The Gate and in the West End. He was Associate Director at the Royal
Shakespeare Company from 2009 to 2012 and was Artistic Director of Northampton
Theatres from 2002 to 2005. He has twice been the recipient of the Laurence
Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director. For
television he has directed Macbeth and
Richard II for the BBC and Neal Street Productions, the latter of which
was nominated for a BAFTA. His first feature film, True Story, which stars James Franco and Jonah Hill for Plan B and
Fox Searchlight has just been released in the UK.
The King Charles III tour is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions,
Stuart Thompson Productions, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Charles Diamond and
the Almeida Theatre in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and by
arrangement with Lee Dean.
Tickets
King Charles III appears at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Monday
28th September – Saturday 3rd October 2015.
Tickets
from £14.50 (pay 50p less per ticket when you book online).
Tickets
can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21, (calls
cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge) or select your own
seat and book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
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