The traditional legal disclaimer about fiction intending “no resemblance to actual persons living or dead” has become inadequate to contemporary drama’s fascination with biographical narratives. In the West End hit The Audience, actors are deliberately intended to resemble The Queen and several of her prime ministers. And now three men who prominently served the monarch in her role as Supreme Governor of the Church of England have inspired Temple, a captivating new play informed by events in the winter of 2011-12 when anti-capitalist protestors set up camp outside St Paul’s cathedral.A strength of Temple is that playwright Steve Waters has intelligently addressed the issue that most infuriated those of us who disliked The Audience – playwright Peter Morgan&rs
04 June 2015, The Tablet
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