Bonus: Mike Bartlett Rewrites (Future) History

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🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *King Charles III.

In 2012, playwright Mike Bartlett had a revolutionary idea: a Shakespearean drama about a king who had not yet ruled, King Charles III. But the road from first draft to Tony nomination was anything but easy. In this episode, Mike Bartlett joins host Jace Lacob to go behind-the-scenes of his controversial work.

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0:38.0	Such equal billing was a joy when Prince to share the stage did spread attention out, but now I'll rise to how things have to be.
0:48.6	The Queen is dead.
0:51.0	Long live the King. Though it certainly sounds Shakespearean, King Charles
0:56.4	the third wasn't actually written by the Bard himself. Rather it was written by
1:00.5	a Bart, one Mike Bartlett. In 2014, Mike Bartlett wrote the play
1:05.8	King Charles III, which would later form the basis of the film. Both are set in a
1:11.1	near future where Queen Elizabeth has died,
1:13.7	and Prince Charles must step up to the throne.
1:17.0	Mike wanted King Charles III to feel at home among the Shakespearean Greats,
1:21.2	so he root the play in iambic pentameter, added in star-crossed lovers and a ghost,
1:26.5	and turned Charles, the Prince Charles of Britain, into a tragic hero.
1:30.9	That's why I realized he could be a Shakespearean figure, the man who waited his whole life to do a job and then only got it for a tiny period of time at the end.
1:37.0	But Prince Charles isn't the only well-known royal to make an appearance.
1:41.0	In King Charles III, Mike Bartlett imagines William as a dutiful
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