Helen Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth play that impressed The Crown returning to cinemas | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Long earlier than The Crown, Peter Morgan wrote the 2006 movie The Queen, for which Dame Helen Mirren received an Oscar.

The pair reunited in 2013 for the West End play, The Audience, with the actress reprising Queen Elizabeth II from the Fifties via to the current day.

The focus of the manufacturing was on the late monarch’s weekly non-public conferences together with her prime ministers, from Sir Winston Churchill to David Cameron, and on speculating what their conversations might need been.

Of course, followers of Morgan’s The Crown can simply see how the play impressed the Netflix TV sequence with its common viewers scenes all through the seasons.

What’s unimaginable, although, is that the filmed model of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning manufacturing (Mirren received Best Actress for each) has been unavailable to lease, purchase, or stream on the National Theatre app because it performed in cinemas over a decade in the past. The solely means one might see it will be to go to the National Theatre archives at Waterloo and watch it on a pc monitor with headphones. But now the unimaginable manufacturing, which turned one of many most-watched National Theatre Live broadcasts upon its preliminary 2014 launch is lastly returning to cinemas on February 26. Tickets can be found to e-book on the likes of Cineworld and Odeon now.