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Touring nationally Autumn 2010

A co-production with Icarus Theatre Collective

and Original Theatre Company
The Madness of George III
by Alan Bennett

Directed by Alastair Whatley
Musical arrangement by Ron McAllister
Design by Victoria Spearing
Lighting design by Alan Valentine
Costume by Fiona Davis
 

Cast - tbc
 

The year is 1786. George III is King. King of England. He has a loving wife, a nation of subjects, a loyal parliament, and the world kneels at his feet....

But he’s a little odd.

 

The king’s behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic, and word has it he’s addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia! Doctors are called in, parliament falters, and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power.

 

From the hand of national treasure Alan Bennett, author of The History Boys and Talking Heads, The Madness of George III is a brilliant exploration of duty and kingship, an epic play about the ties that bind us together as family, as a society and as a nation. Gripping drama, dangerous politics and irreverent comedy collide in a rollercoaster ride where the health of the nation is at the mercy of the mental health of one man.

 

First performed by the National Theatre in 1991 and subsequently adapted into the hit 1994 film starring Nigel Hawthorne, this marks the first touring production of the play since the original award-winning production.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Clever, humane,

beautifully wrought”  Observer

 

Tour Schedule Autumn 2010

 

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