Mary Stuart

For a queen to stand, a queen must fall.

Cast includes: Robyn Malcolm, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Stuart Devenie, George Henare, Edward Peni, Andrew Grainger, David Aston, Jonathan Kenyon, Jon Pheloung, Cameron Rhodes, Hera Dunleavy
Direction: Colin McColl
Design: John Parker, Elizabeth Whiting, Phillip Dexter MSc, Eden Mullholland

This European masterpiece hinges on a brilliantly imagined meeting between Mary Queen of Scots, focus of simmering Catholic dissent, and her cousin, Elizabeth, Queen of England, who has imprisoned her.

Isolated by their duplicitous male courtiers, the women collide headlong, each wrestling with the rank, ambition and destiny their births have bestowed, against a thrilling background of political intrigue, plot and counter-plot.

“Exhilarating! Pure class!” - The Daily Telegraph

“Terrifically exciting. Mary Stuart has never seemed more pertinent than it does in this vivid incarnation.” - New York Times

“Brilliant, fast-moving narrative about the imprisoning effect of power.” - The Guardian

"Mary Stuart wears her heart on her sleeve; Elizabeth I has sealed hers in a concrete bunker. Set in the late 16th century, written in 1800, the play feels startlingly modern in its incisive, darkly funny portrayal of two powerful women negotiating survival in a dangerous, political, male world. It’s a great thrill to be working again with Robyn and Elizabeth, two actors at the top of their game." - Colin

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