A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Queen of Scots
Full-Length Play, Drama / 6f, 20m
Gordon Daviot
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Cast Size
6f, 20m -
Subgenre
Period, Docudrama/History -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
This play about Mary Stuart is restricted to those seven fateful years in Scotland between 1561-8, which broke the Queen's spirit and changed her from a not-too-much cast down, Frenchified young woman - her husband, Francis II of France, had only just died - to the pathetic creature who escaped to England after the defeat of Langside in 1568, and thus entered on her long-protracted but inevitable doom. One has the workings of political intrigue and subterfuge, which start from the temporary banishment of Bothwell, and include the murder of Rizzio, and marriage with the worthless Darnley and his subsequent assassination in a sickbed, and the second marriage, this time with the rugged masterful Bothwell, which was the beginning of the end.
History
New Theatre, London, 1934, starring Laurence Olivier as Bothwell
Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
- Time Period 16th Century/Elizabethan
- Setting 9 Interiors, 1 Exterior
- Features Period Costumes
- Cautions
- Mild Adult Themes
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.