Wednesday 6 – Saturday 9 May 2009

Mary Stuart

By Friedrich Schiller, Adapted by by David Harrower
Directed by David Shirley

'One of European theatre's major plays, Schiller's masterpiece hinges on a brilliantly imagined meeting between Mary, Queen of Scots - a focus for 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 intrigue, plot and counter-plot.'

Cast

Mary Stuart - Christine Clare
Elizabeth - Rosamund Hine
Jane Kennedy - Katie Collier
Mortimer - Sam Edge
Talbot - Ben Trebilcock
Paulet - Thomas Walsh
O'Kelly/Davison Nathan McMullen
Melville/Aubespine - Ashley Gerlach
Leicester - Matthew Walker
Kent - Edward Toll

Designer: Lara Booth