Review: Mary Stuart, Almeida

"The Queen? Which Queen?"

Robert Icke's Mary Stuart is a towering success, an extraordinary piece of theatre that surely ranks amongst the year's best, no mean feat considering his Oresteia, also for the Almeida, did the same thing last. There's added spice here too since leading players Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson do not know which of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots they will be playing until the beginning of the performance when it is decided with a coin toss. And so too, dear reader, must you decide...

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