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Overview

Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "crisis" for the country. King Magnus is happy to engage a prime minister seeking to transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy, but who truly rules in this democracy: the king, the government or the businessmen? And do any of them care about the people?

Cast

Helen Mirren

Nigel Davenport

King Magnus

Prunella Scales

Queen Jemima

Beryl Reid

Amanda

N/A

Joyce Grant

Lysistrata

Bill Fraser

Boanerges

Peter Barkworth

Prime Minister

Griffith Jones

Foreign Secretary

Trevor Baxter

Colonial Secretary

N/A

Reg Pritchard

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Thorley Walters

Home Secretary

N/A

Simon Lack

Pamphilius