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MMI Presents! National Theatre Live: The Audience

NTLive - The Audience An intimate portrait of power, duty and the woman behind the crown.

We’re delighted to welcome National Theatre Live back to St Agnes MMI with The Audience — the Olivier and Tony Award®-winning play starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II.

Captured live from London’s West End, The Audience offers a fascinating and intimate glimpse behind palace doors, imagining the private weekly meetings between the Queen and her Prime Ministers.

For over 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 Prime Ministers in confidence. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and beyond, these conversations were never revealed — until now. Through these imagined audiences, we see the woman behind the crown and the moments that shaped a monarch, a nation, and history itself.

Written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Daldry, this acclaimed production was the original inspiration for Netflix’s The Crown and remains one of the most watched National Theatre Live screenings of all time.