The King's Speech

The King's Speech comes to Nottingham Playhouse from Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 March 2027, a Barn Theatre production adapted from the Oscar-winning film. It follows Bertie, the future King George VI, a shy man with a debilitating speech impediment who turns to an unconventional Australian speech therapist to prepare him to address the nation during a constitutional crisis. The story is set around the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, with war on the horizon and a reluctant second son suddenly required to speak for the country over the wireless. Over the course of their work, the relationship between the king and Lionel Logue grows into something closer to a friendship.

George Rainsford plays King George VI, with Stefan Dennis as Lionel Logue. Rosanna Miles takes on the double role of Queen Elizabeth and Myrtle Logue, and Tim Hudson plays both King George V and Winston Churchill. Ian Kirkby is Archbishop Cosmo Lang, and Mark Hammersley covers David, King Edward VIII, and Stanley Baldwin. Loveday Ingram directs, and the play is by David Seidler.

Seidler wrote the 2010 screenplay and won an Academy Award for it before he died in 2024. He'd developed a stammer as a boy after being sent from London to the United States during the war, and he took the stuttering king as a private role model long before he ever wrote about him. The show has played the West End, toured Britain and the United States, and been produced in nine other languages. Age guidance is 12+.

There are performances every day of the run: Tuesday 16 March at 7.30pm; Wednesday 17 March at 2.30pm and 7.30pm; Thursday 18 March at 2.30pm and 7.30pm; Friday 19 March at 7.30pm; and Saturday 20 March at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets range from £17.50 to £58.50, with standard seats between £20.00 and £51.00 and an AD Audio Described performance priced £17.50 to £46.00, plus a £2.00 booking fee per order.