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'.
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