Craig Barnes is a former trial lawyer who spent more than a decade as a negotiator dealing with international issues and ethnic and environmental conflicts in and around the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of and the dramaturge for the Santa Fe-based theater group Red Thread Collective. His play, The Last Tudor, plays June 6-22 atElMuseo Cultural.
SFR: Your new play, The Last Tudor, suggests that the notoriously single-minded-and single-Queen Elizabeth I, may have had a child. You base the premise on a painting.
CB: This picture, hanging in Hampton Court Palace, was done by a noted painter, the court painter to Elizabeth. It depicts a young, red-haired woman in full body, wearing an ...