Serving Elizabeth

by  Johnson, Marcia

Published: 2020

Acts: 2

Language: English

Category: Drama

Acts: 2
Male Roles: 2
Female Roles: 3
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh have a fateful royal visit to Kenya in 1952. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approacked to cooked for the royal couple. As a staunch anti-monarchist, how can she take the job? Decades later, Tia, a Kenyan-Canadian film student interning in the London office of a production company doing a series about Queen Elizabeth, discovers that there may be more to the sotrey of the royal visit than we have been led to believe. Athough she's been a fan of princesses her entire life, Tia learns that fairy tales and real life are very different things.