Elizabeth Rex
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 29, 2011
Closed Jan 12, 2012
Opened Nov 29, 2011
Closed Jan 12, 2012
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Artistic Director Barbara Gaines brings her masterful hand to this contemporary play re-imagining Shakespeare's time. On the eve of the beheading of her court favorite and rumored lover, the Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth was entertained by a royal command performance by Shakespeare and his company. Upon this obscure historical fact, one of Canada's most acclaimed playwrights, Timothy Findley, imagines this daring and original drama. Longing for distraction, the Queen visits the acting troupe's lodgings, where she finds the actor who plays Shakespeare's leading ladies. In their passionate confrontation, the actor and the Queen come to shocking revelations about sexuality, identity and love.
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Audiences at the Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater expect lavish production values and forceful, honest performances, all of which once again carry the day in
Elizabeth Rex, Canadian playwright Timothy Findley's historical drama which stretches the fabric of history until you can see through the warp and woof, much like The Lion in Winter or The Madness of King George or Shakespeare's history plays.
It's 1601 in London, and former royal favorite Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, will be executed at dawn. The only person who can save him is the person he betrayed, Elizabeth I (the extraordinary Diane D'Aquila), now nearly 70 years old after 43 years as queen. What does she do? [...]