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KC3 Play Guide R1 Compr PLAY GUIDE 2016 2017 About ATC .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction to the Play ............................................................................................................................. 2 Meet the Playwright ................................................................................................................................... 2 Meet the Characters .................................................................................................................................. 3 The Real Royals ......................................................................................................................................... 5 The Line of Succession .......................................... ................................................................................... 12 British Parliament and Positions .............................................................................................................. 13 British Politics ........................................................................................................................................... 16 Royal Rituals ............................................................................................................................................. 18 King Charles and the Bard ........................................................................................................................ 19 Glossary ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 King Charles III Play Guide written by Chloe Loos, ATC Artistic Intern; edited and designed by Katherine Monberg, ATC Literary Manager. SUPPORT FOR ATC’S LEARNING & EDUCATION PROGRAMMING HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY: APS Rosemont Copper Arizona Commission on the Arts Stonewall Foundation Bank of America Foundation Target Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona The Boeing Company City of Glendale The Donald Pitt Family Foundation Community Foundation for Southern Arizona The Johnson Family Foundation, Inc. Cox Charities The Lovell Foundation Downtown Tucson Partnership The Marshall Foundation Enterprise Holdings Foundation The Maurice and Meta Gross Foundation Ford Motor Company Fund The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation The Stocker Foundation JPMorgan Chase The WIlliam L. and Ruth T. Pendleton Memorial Fund John and Helen Murphy Foundation Tucson Medical Center National Endowment for the Arts Tucson Pima Arts Council Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Wells Fargo PICOR Charitable Foundation ABOUT ATC Arizona Theatre Company is a professional, not-for-profit theatre company. This means that all of our artists, administrators and production staff are paid professionals, and the income we receive from ticket sales and contributions goes right back into our budget to create our work, rather than to any particular person as a profit. Eash season, ATC employs hundreds of actors, directors and designers from all over the country to create the work you see on stage. In addition, ATC currently employs approximately 50 staff members in our production shops and administrative offices in Tucson and Phoenix during our season. Among these people are carpenters, painters, marketing professionals, fundraisers, stage directors, sound and light board operators, tailors, costume designers, box office agents, stage crew - the list is endless - representing am amazing range of talents and skills. We are also supported by a Board of Trustees, a group of business and community leaders who volunteer their time and expertise to assist the theatre in financial and legal matters, advise in marketing and fundraising, and help represent the theatre in our community. Roughly 150,000 people attend our shows every year, and several thousand of those people support us with charitable contributions in addition to purchasing their tickets. Businesses large and small, private foundations and the city and state governments also support our work financially. All of this is in support of our vision and mission: The mission of Arizona Theatre Company is to inspire, engage and entertain - one moment, one production and one audience at a time. Our mission is to create professional theatre that continually strives to reach new levels of artistic excellence that resonates locally, in the state of Arizona and throughout the nation. In order to fulfill our mission, the theatre produces a broad repertoire ranging from classics to new works, engages artists of the highest caliber, and is committed to assuring access to the broadest spectrum of citizens. The Temple of Music and Art, the home of ATC shows in downtown The Herberger Theater Center, ATC’s performance venue in downtown Tucson. Phoenix. 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PLAY King Charles III By Mike Bartlett Directed by Matt August Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best Play The Queen is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, Prince Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate, and Harry look on, Charles prepares for the future of power that lies before him...but how will he rule? The play draws on the style and structure of a Shakespearean history play, but with modern verve, a comic subplot, and even the occasional appearance of a significant ghost. An exciting and provocative new drama of political intrigue by Mike Bartlett, King Charles III explores Show art by Esser Design. the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family. MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT Mike Bartlett (Playwright) is currently the Associate Playwright at Paines Plough. In 2011 he was writer-in-residence at The National Theatre, and in 2007 he was the Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Royal Court Theatre. His play Love, Love, Love won Best New Play in the 2011 Theatre Awards U.K., and his play Cock won an Olivier Award in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre; he won the Writer's Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking and the Old Vic New Voices Awards for Artefacts. Theatre credits include: Love, Love, Love and 13 (National Theatre), Decade (co-writer), Earthquakes in London, Cock, Contractions, Artefacts, and My Child. Radio credits include: "The Core," "Heart," "Liam," "The Steps," "Love Contract," "Not Talking," and "The Family Man," all on BBC. Screen credits include Earthquakes in London and Hometown. Directing credits include Honest by D.C. Moore. He is currently under commission from Playwright Mike Bartlett. Headlong Theatre, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre, and The Royal Court Theatre. 2 MEET THE CHARACTERS Actor Peter Van Norden, who Actor Cathy Dresbach, who Actor Kate Maher Hyland, who Actor Adam Haas Hunter, who plays Charles in ATC’s King plays Camilla in ATC’s King plays Kate in ATC’s King plays William in ATC’s King Charles III. Charles III. Charles III. Charles III. Actor Dylan Saunders, who Actor Harold Dixon, who plays Actor Corey Walter Johnson, Actor Gregory North, who plays plays Harry in ATC’s King James Reiss in ATC’s King who plays Mr. Evans in ATC’s Mr. Stevens in ATC’s King Charles III. Charles III. King Charles III. Charles III. Actor Jeanne Syquia, who plays Actor Kathryn Kellner Brown, Actor Christian Miller, who Actor Bill Chameides, who Jess in ATC’s King Charles III. who plays various characters in plays various characters in plays various characters in ATC’s King Charles III. ATC’s King Charles III. ATC’s King Charles III. 3 Actor Aubrey King, who plays Actor Ali Wood Moser, who plays Actor Cera Naccarato, who various characters in ATC’s various characters in ATC’s plays various characters in King Charles III. King Charles III. ATC’s King Charles III. King Charles III: The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth and the successor to the British throne. He is, for all intents and purposes, the reigning monarch. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: The second wife of Charles and the would-be queen consort. Catherine (Kate), Duchess of Cambridge: William’s wife. William, Duke of Cambridge: Charles’ eldest son and the heir apparent. Prince Harry: William’s younger brother, considered a “wild child.” James Reiss: The Press Secretary to the royal family. Tristan Evans: The current Prime Minister. Mark Stevens: The Leader of the Opposition. Jess: A republican art student. 4 THE REAL ROYALS Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on April 21, 1926, to the Duke and Duchess of York (laer to become King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Elizabeth and her younger sister, Princess Margaret, were educated at home by their mother and governess, Marion Crawford (who later published a biography of the two entitled The Little Princesses in 1950) and focused on history, language, literature, and music; she later studied constitutional history and French. Although she was third in line to the throne, she wasn’t expected to succeed because of the relative youth of the immediate successor, her uncle Edward. However, Edward abdicated after his engagement to divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson produced a national scandal, allowing Elizabeth’s father George to become King Queen Elizabeth II. and Elizabeth to become the heir apparent. The royal family remained in the country when Britain entered World War II in 1939, and 14-year-old Elizabeth produced a radio broadcast during the BBC
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