Third Rail Screens National Theatre's THE AUDIENCE, Starring Helen Mirren, Now thru 6/30

Third Rail Theatre will present HD screenings of The National Theatre's The Audience by Peter Morgan this month.

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live.

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace--a meeting like no other in British public life--it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.The Audience breaks this contract of silence--and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional-- sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.

These HD screenings of the live performance are brought to Portland by Third Rail Theatre.

DATES:

Saturday June 15, 2pm and 7pm
Saturday June 22, 2pm and 7pm
Saturday June 29, 2pm and 7pm
Sunday June 30, 2pm and 7pm

Season Voucher Package $96 (6 screening for $96); Single tickets $20; Seniors 65 + $18; Students $15. All screenings are at the World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon Street, Portland, Oregon. For additional information, visit thirdrailrep.org or call 503-235-1011.

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Pictured: Young Elizabeth (Bebe Cave) and Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren). Photo by Johann Persson.

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