Article: Theatre review: Maria Stuart, and Sunset Song: Kissing cousins rewrite history

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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