TCG Publishes Mike Bartlett's Broadway, West End Hit KING CHARLES III

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Mike Bartlett's KING CHARLES III, which has appeared in the West End and on Broadway, is now in print. Theatre Communications Group (TCG) announced its publication today. The play premiered in the spring of 2014 at Almeida Theatre in London, and made its move to Broadway in the fall of 2015.

Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son Charles ascends to the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate and Harry look on, he prepares for the future of power that lies before him. But how to rule?

Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, KING CHARLES III is the "magnificent, ingenious, fearlessly comic" (Entertainment Weekly) drama of political intrigue by Mike Bartlett, with successful runs in London's West End and on Broadway. This controversial "future history play" explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of Britain's democracy and the conscience of its most famous family.

Mike Bartlett is one of the UK's most exciting and inventive young writers. His original plays have been performed at the National Theatre, the Royal Court and Off-Broadway. They include Earthquakes in London;13; Love, Love, Love; c*ckand Bull.

KING CHARLES III

By Mike Bartlett

Paperback 128 pages

$14.95 978-1-55936-530-7

December 2015

First TCG title from Mike Bartlett

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