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Article: Theatre review: Maria Stuart, and Sunset Song: Kissing cousins rewrite history
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- September 8, 2002
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MARIA STUART
King's Theatre,
Edinburgh
SUNSET SONG
Theatre Royal,
Glasgow
WITH the Burgtheater of Vienna's production of Schiller's great
play Maria Stuart, Edinburgh International Festival director Brian
McMaster has saved the best 'til last. As well he might, his 2002
theatre programme has disappointed, but the Austrian company all but
saves the day.
Schiller's drama is, in itself, a truly remarkable theatre work.
Written in four very distinct acts, it deals with Mary Stuart's
incarceration, Elizabeth Tudor's deliberations over her cousin's
future, and the consequent drama and tragedy, with astounding
clarity. That it does so by means of considerable dramatic licence
(Mary and ...
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February 3, 2006 ;
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...THEATRE, SUNSET SONG, CITIZENS' THEATRE, GLASGOW **** IN A recent poll, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song was voted the greatest Scottish book of all time, and its reputation certainly won't suffer any damage from this splendid stage ...
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