by The queen was surprised by a scene from one of her favorite games when she organized the stage and canvas in Buckingham Palace stars.
The queen was accompanied by A-lists such as Cate Blanchett, the two-time Oscar winner, Andrew Garfield, the star of the Spider-Man films and we in the time and James Corden, the Creator of Gavin and Stacey, accompanied by the National Theater.
When the guests in the Green Room of Buckingham Palace mixed on Tuesday evening, the queen, who is the patron of the national theater, was interrupted by the actress Sharon D Clarke as Lady Bracknell in costumes.
The actress in character led the queen to a seat in the throne next door before he went on stage with Ncuti Gatwa, the star of Doctor Who as Algernon, and Hugh Skinner as Jack Worthing. Skinner played Prince William in Channel 4 The Windsors’ comedy series.
The queen laughed when she saw the famous scene in which Jack Lady Bracknell said that as a baby he was found in a handbag in the Victoria station.
It ended with the line: “Should we go to the palace?” Followed by Jack’s angry answer: “No, I can’t keep the palace.”
The queen later announced that the play was “one of my favorites” when she met the actors in the picture gallery, and joked that she might want to borrow something from Lady Bracknell’s extravagant jewelry.
She welcomed Sharon D Clarke and called: “Lady Bracknell, she. Did you like it? “
“I loved Lady Bracknell every second, it was never anything I had ever expected,” replied Clarke.
“Fantastic, absolutely brilliant,” said the queen to her.
Clarke put a hand on the queen’s shoulder and asked: “It is a piece you love?”
“It is one of my favorites, it’s so funny, it really makes me laugh,” replied the queen. “You are brilliant in it, you switched on your place.”
On the actress’s gem strength, she said: “I like all of her decorations.”
“You can’t strap any of you,” replied Clarke and added: “But if you want to make yourself like myself …”
“I have the feeling that I could borrow a couple for a state dinner. I think it would only be the job, ”joked the queen. “This is a very big diamond.”
She greeted Gatwa and said, “How are you? The last time I saw you, we recorded the night before Christmas. “Regarding a filmed performance of the poem, in which you and the king support the actors Benevolent Fund after the Covid 19 closures of 2020.
“It was so much fun,” he recalled. “Thank you for having me back.”
In a speech after the performance, Sir Damon Buffini, the chairman of the National Theater, said to The Queen: “Thank you for let us get us into your home. It is absolutely fantastic that you are our patron. After all, we are the Royal National Theater. For us it means a large amount of having your support.
“We want to see them more often. You could also go with your other half if you want, we promise that it is not too long. “
“A very nice opportunity”
Previously, the Queen of Rufus Norris, the outgoing director of the National Theater, had been installed in the reception, whose own speech by Sir Simon Russell Beale, the star of the House of the Dragon, was interrupted, who performed Hamlet’s Speak the Speechs Monologue.
The queen was also presented in Indhu Rubasingham, who, with his executive director Kate Varah, becomes the first female director and joint managing director of the National Theater.
The queen became the patron saint of the National Theater in 2022. The role was previously taken over by the Duchess of Sussex from 2019 to 2021 and previously by Queen Elizabeth II.
When she left the event, she said to the guests: “It was a very nice opportunity.”
The National Theater collects donations for £ 125 million to improve his house in London’s South Bank, an example of brutalist architecture that was compared in 1998 by Prince Charles with a “nuclear power plant”.
