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By Jill Sperling

Serving Elizabeth

WCT’s latest production offers new perspective on the monarchy

Feb 12, 2020 | 4:47 PM

KAMLOOPS — Rehearsals are underway for Western Canada Theatre’s newest production, Serving Elizabeth.

The play is set in two separate time periods, first in 1952 as Princess Elizabeth is visiting Kenya and learns of her father’s death.

Playwright Marcia Johnson was inspired to write Serving Elizabeth after watching an episode of the Netflix series The Crown.

“I was inspired by my anger at the second episode in season one,” Johnson said. “I just thought they’d totally missed a huge story-telling part and were really disrespectful to the people of Kenya, because they had great stories and they were just used as a backdrop.”

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Through Serving Elizabeth, audiences will be challenged to look at history with a new perspective.

“It’s just telling a different story than many audience members are accustomed to,” said Amanda Lisman, who plays Princess Elizabeth. “It’s giving a voice to people who have not had a voice in the cultural narrative, in the mainstream pop culture that we have.”

This will be the world premiere of Serving Elizabeth, which opens February 20th and runs through the 29th.