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King of Hearts

Love, politics and royalty collide in a delicious new satire

Princess Di, Wallis Simpson – why is it always affairs of the heart that send the Windsors into meltdown?

The handsome young heir to the throne has fallen in love.  His fiancée is attractive, intelligent, articulate… and Muslim.

Suddenly it’s not only the future of the Royal Family under question but the very identity of Britain itself, as a panicked Prime Minister grapples with the startling possibility of a multi-cultural monarchy.

“An orgy of Machievellian manoeuvring.”
Michael Billington, The Guardian.

“A breath of fresh air – a very clever comic device to raise questions about contemporary Britain”
Steve Richards, Radio 4 Front Row.

“Farcical, radical, topical, hysterical – Alistair Beaton’s new play is political satire at its best, poisonously funny, a brilliant distorting mirror held up to our nature…. Beaton has a crazed but realistic imagination, an awesome talent for the killer joke, and a finger firmly attached to the pulse of the nation.”
John Peter, Sunday Times.