Drama on 3 - Hyde Park-on-Hudson

A play by Richard Nelson, blending history and conjecture. No reigning British monarch had ever been to the United States before George VI's visit in 1939, just on the cusp of a new world war. History was in the making when the King and Queen arrived at President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, with a promise of politics, a picnic and hot dogs. But the private life of the President provided a whole new dimension to an epochal moment, at least in the memory of his lover. Older Daisy, a woman in her 90s ...... Barbara Jefford Daisy, her younger self ...... Emma Fielding Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...... Tim Pigott-Smith Missy, his secretary ...... Nancy Crane Eleanor, his wife ...... Julia Swift Mother, his mother ...... Sylvia Syms Tommy Qualters, his bodyguard ...... John Chancer Bertie ...... Corin Redgrave Elizabeth ...... Kika Markham Cameron ...... Jamie Newall Directed by Ned Chaillet.