Looking for Victoria

A gentle, scholarly docudrama that blends performance and historical inquiry, inviting quiet reflection on a queen's private life.

Created by

Louise Osmond

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Prunella Scales, Geoffrey Palmer, Charlie Hayes

Overview

Drama documentary with Prunella Scales. Scales researches the life of Queen Victoria and interviews historians to help her with her portrayal of Queen Victoria in her one-woman stage show "An Evening with Queen Victoria". She also portrays Queen Victoria in the historical reconstructions in this programme and reads from Queen Victoria's private diaries written late in life and unpublished until now.

How it feels

Earnest, warm and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Identity, grief, isolation, media

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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