Schiller Friedrich - Mary Stuart - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution. Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of British history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Written in verse and based on historical sources Schiller's play imagines the queens lives - one in court the other in prison - surrounded by staff and servants. Their imagined meeting before Mary's execution is passionate and enthralling. Robert Icke's lean version condenses the action cutting the cast to twelve whilst retaining the play's symmetrical structure and tense atmosphere. In an exciting twist the first production had two actors learn the roles of both queens and their roles were decided at each performance by the toss of a coin. Adding a further duality to the play this also allowed the first word of the evening to anticipate its ending: Heads'.
Title: Mary Stuart
Author(s): Schiller Friedrich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781786820259
Pages: 122 Pages
Publication Date: 10/3/2017
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Category: Politics & Government