MARY STUART by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
This play begins in a death chamber. Gray, broody castle walls define the prison cell. In the dim light, we make out the anguished figure of a woman in a sackcloth shift. It is Mary Stuart, pretender to the English throne, and the velvet-covered block on which she sits will soon receive her severed head.
This might seem like the darkling prologue to a swellingly somber theme. Will 'German Playwright Hildesheimer offer us fresh insights into Mary's vaulting ambitions, her untempered will, her vulnerable femininity and her invincible Catholicism?...
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