The Queen

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While the British public was overwhelmed with grief at the death of the 'People's Princess', the Royal Family was markedly unresponsive - a reaction which almost brought down the monarchy. Queen Elizabeth finds herself in a maelstrom of emotions, as the new prime minister, Tony Blair, tries to convince her to satisfy 'her people' with an expression of grief, while at the same time the conflicts within her own family threaten to engulf her. The Queen is a moving portrait of a woman whose every waking hour has been guided by protocol, and who finds herself in a situation where everything she has based her life on no longer applies. The Queen is written by Peter Morgan, whose work is characterised by an acute sensitivity to the moral dilemmas of political life - as in The Deal, which charts the rivalry between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for the crown of the Labour party, and Frost/Nixon, which presents the crucial television interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon that ended Nixon's political career.

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Peter Morgan is an international award-winning writer for stage, screen and film. As well as receiving Oscar and BAFTA nominations for his screenplay for Stephen Frears' The Queen starring Helen Mirren, Morgan won a host of international awards including Golden Globe, British Independent Film and Evening Standard British Film Awards.His latest play The Audience opens at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in February 2013. His last, the award-winning Frost/Nixon, received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic before being adapted in to an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. The film garnered five Oscar nominations, including Best Screenplay.His many other film credits include the award-winning The Last King of Scotland, The Damned United, the upcoming Rush directed by Ron Howard as well as his current project about the life of Hugh Hefner for Warner Bros entitled Playboy.His extensive television credits include the critically acclaimed The Deal - the first part of Morgan's Tony Blair Trilogy (BAFTA Award for Best Drama), The Special Relationship and Longford.