The Audience (2013 play)

"The Audience (play)" redirects here. For the 1930 play sometimes known under that title, see The Public (play).

The Audience is a play by the British playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan. The play centres on weekly meetings, called audiences, between Queen Elizabeth II, played by Dame Helen Mirren, and her prime ministers and premiered in the West End in 2013, at the Gielgud Theatre. A Broadway production opened in 2015, also starring Mirren. A West End revival is playing in London in 2015 starring Dame Kristin Scott Thomas in the lead role.