Mary Stuart
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 19, 2009
Closed Aug 16, 2009
Opened Apr 19, 2009
Closed Aug 16, 2009
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Running Time:
2hr. 50min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 50min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Nominated for 7 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play!
For a Queen to stand, a Queen must fall...
Tony Award winner Janet McTeer and Olivier Award winner Harriet Walter -- who both starred in the critically acclaimed London production of Mary Stuart -- reprise their roles on Broadway! Phyllida Lloyd directs.
Mary Stuart is Friedrich Schiller's thrilling account of the extraordinary relationship between England's Elizabeth I (Harriet Walter) and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots (Janet McTeer), Elizabeth's rival to the throne. With its behind the scenes intrigue, scheming and betrayal, the play has the feel of a modern-day political thriller. The play, seen here in a new version by Peter Oswald, builds to one of the most electrifying dramatic confrontations in world theatre, in which Schiller imagines a meeting between the two monarchs on the grounds at Fotheringay Castle.
The cast also includes Michael Countryman, John Benjamin Hickey, Brian Murray, Michael Rudko, Robert Stanton, Maria Tucci, Chandler Williams, and Nicholas Woodeson.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
Can't wait to go back.
Its so rare to have two performances of this extraordinary caliber in one production that Im planning a second trip to Mary Stuart. Ignore all the blather about the correctness - or lack thereof - of period dress and decorum. This is a brilliant production. Period.
Reviewed by dressrehearsal1
on Thursday, Jun 18th, 2009
---are you kidding
Dear Erich Sage,
Have you considered that the lack of differentiation and bleak costuming that you so decry might, in fact, BE a concept?
I believe the plays intention was to show two antithetically motivated woman who were both tied and imprisoned in a world of political intrigue they were born into. Elizabeth, with your adoration of her history costuming aside, lived as a "virgin" in a cold castle, constantly fearing attack and uprising from all sides. Despite their two natures, the woman were remarkably similar.
I think this was the point. Which you missed. Youre right--we younger-theater goers do notice more than youd think
Reviewed by talvaro
on Saturday, Jun 6th, 2009
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Do you want to behold true Broadway bravura? Then make a bee-line to the Broadhurst Theatre, where Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter are blasting from the stage like twin cannonades in Phyllida Lloyd's production of Friedrich Schiller's swanky costume drama
Mary Stuart, in which McTeer plays the title role and Walter is Queen Elizabeth I. Not surprisingly, with this majestic pair dominating the combustible material like the monarchs they're impersonating, woe be unto anyone who tries crossing their path.
The actresses benefit from Schiller's construction -- by way of a new Peter Oswald version -- in that the play involves a series of scenes in which one or the other takes stage and, well, ho[...]