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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS GOT HER HEAD CHOPPED OFF
The National Theatre of Scotland is currently on tour with a rejuvenated version of Scottish playwriting legend Liz Lochhead’s theatrical classic. Lochhead dramatises an important chapter in the religious and political history of Scotland from the perspective of two of the most intriguing women in the history of these islands, Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin. Elizabeth I of England. For all Lochhead‘s comical take on the pair's famous clashes it is clear from the inevitable outcome that this island just ain’t big enough for the two of them. Feisty and last-moving the play dramatises the restrictions confronting women in power at that time. This production is directed by Alison Peebles who played Elizabeth in the original 1987 production. I