By Friedrich Schiller | a new adaptation created by Robert Icke
Tickets
£10 - £30 (2 - 8 Dec)
£10 - £60 (from 9 Dec)
★★★★★ Time Out, Observer, Mail on Sunday, The Stage
★★★★ Sunday Times, The Times, Independent, Evening Standard, Daily Mail
Two queens. One in power. One in prison.
It's all in the execution.
Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of some of British history's most crucial days. Playing both Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Juliet Stevenson (Duet for One) and Lia Williams (Oresteia) trade the play's central roles, decided at each performance by the toss of a coin.
Photographed by Miles Aldridge, Production by Lucy Watson Productions, Set Design by Vincent Olivier @ Magnet, Styling by Nicholas Royal, Hair by Joseph Pujalte @ Art List Paris, Make up by Janeen Witherspoon, Nails by Ami Streets @ LMC Worldwide. Special thanks to Spring Studios and Sola Lighting
Production photography by Manuel Harlan
Rehearsal photography by Miles Aldridge
Evenings 7pm
Wed matinees 1.30pm 14, 21, 28 Dec & 4, 11, 18 Jan
Fri matinee 1.30pm 30 Dec
Sat matinees 1.30pm from 17 Dec
Previews Fri 2 - Wed 14 Dec
Press Night Thurs 15 Dec
2 - 8 Dec £10, £18, £22, £26, £30
9, 10, 19 - 23 Dec, 3 - 14 Jan, 24 - 28 Jan £10, £18, £24, £30, £38
27 - 31 Dec, 16 - 21 Jan, 28 Jan £10, £20, £34, £48
*£60 Champagne Pol Roger Package
Top-price seat, pre-show glass of Pol Roger Brut Reserve** and souvenir programme.
**soft drink alternative available
Talkback
Thurs 5 Jan
Post-show discussion with members of the Mary Stuart company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Supporters' Evening
Tue 20 Dec
Pre-show talk at 6pm
Captioned Performance
Thurs 19 Jan 7pm
Audio Described Performances
by VocalEyes
Sat 7 Jan 1.30pm
(Touch Tour at 11.45am)
Fri 13 Jan 7pm
(Touch Tour at 5.30pm)
Islington First
Fri 2 Dec - Sat 17 Dec
If you live or work in the Islington area you can book best available seats for £23 for the opening performances* of each production
Under 25s
Mon 5, Mon 12, Mon 19 Dec, Tues 24 Jan
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*Subject to availability
Day Seats
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For the Almeida: 1984 (West End).
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For the Almeida: Oresteia; Celebration / The Room.
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Lia won the Award for Best Actress in The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2014 for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Adaptation & Direction
Robert is the Associate Director of the Almeida.
For the Almeida: Uncle Vanya; The Odyssey; The Illiad; Oresteia (also West End); The Fever; Mr Burns; 1984 (also West End, National and International Tours).
Theatre includes: The Red Barn (National Theatre); Boys; Romeo and Juliet; Decade (Headlong).
For Oresteia, Robert won the ‘Best Director’ Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2015, and the Olivier Award for ‘Best Director’ in 2016. His production of 1984 (which he co-adapted and directed with Duncan Macmillan) won Best Director at the UK Theatre Awards, 'Best Director' at the Liverpool Arts Awards and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2014.
Set and Costume Design
For the Almeida: Richard III; Uncle Vanya; Oresteia (also West End); Rosmersholm; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (also West End).
Theatre includes: Waste; Sunset at Villa Thalia; A Taste of Honey; Scenes from an Execution; After The Dance; Harper Regan; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other; The Hothouse; Therese Raquin; Exiles; Iphigenia at Aulis; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; King Lear (National Theatre) Primo (National Theatre / Broadway); Good People; Passion Play; Old Times; Top Hat (also world tour); The Sunshine Boys (also Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles); Arcadia (also Broadway); Blithe Spirit; The Misanthrope; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder (West End); Teddy Ferrara; Roots; Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse); Cause Celebre; All About My Mother; Richard II (Old Vic); The Seagull (also Broadway); Now or Later; Krapp’s Last Tape; Terrorism; My Name is Rachel Corrie (also New York); Blasted (Royal Court); The Crucible (also West End); Electra (RSC); The Jewish Wife (Young Vic).
Film includes: Primo; Krapp’s Last Tape; Richard II; Hedda Gabler.
Recent Opera includes: The Exterminating Angel (Salzburg Festival / Royal Opera House / The Metropolitan Opera); La finta giardiniera (Santa Fe Opera); La Traviata (Glyndebourne Opera Festival); The Makropulos Case (Edinburgh International Festival / Opera North); The Damnation of Faust (ENO / De Vlaamse / Teatro Massimo / Palermo /Berlin Staatsoper).
Hildegard won an Olivier Award in 2011 for her design of After the Dance and received nominations for Top Hat in 2012 and Oresteia in 2016. She was nominated for the Evening Standard Best Designer Award for Iphigenia at Aulis and won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House.
Composition
Albums include: Short Movie; Once I Was An Eagle; A Creature I Don’t Know; I Speak Because I Can; Alas I Cannot Swim.
Laura is a globally acclaimed songwriter and guitarist. She has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize three times.
Lighting
For the Almeida: Uncle Vanya; Parallax; Rabbits; It Needs Horses; Home for Broken Turns (Lost Dog).
Theatre includes: Islands; The Beloved (Bush Theatre); Oh My Sweet Land; In the Penal Colony; Man (Young Vic); The Communist Bigamist (Hebbel Theatre, Berlin); As You Like It (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Ramayana (Lyric Hammersmith / Bristol Old Vic); Orlando (Vidy Lausanne).
Dance includes: Run Mary Run (by Arthur Pita for Natalia Osipova, Sadler’s Wells); American Man, American Boy; Be Like Water (Hetain Patel); May Contain Food; Border Tales; L.O.L.; Dear Body (Protein Dance Company); The Murmuring; Young Men (The Ballet Boyz); Beheld; Let’s Talk about Dis (Candoco Dance Company); Girl A (Scottish Dance Theatre / Ben Duke); Lunatic (National Dance Company of Wales); Disclose (Introdans Company, Holland).
Music, opera and performance include: The Magic Flute (80WSE NYC / Cheap Kollectiv); True Finn (IHMI Helsinki); Wenn Ihr Wollt Ist Es Traum (Secession Vienna); Recital for Cathy; From Canyons to Stars (Jeffrey Tate / Hamburg Symphony Orchestra); Tutbu TV (Hebbel Theatre); Sante (London Symphony Orchestra).
Jackie has worked internationally in dance, theatre and opera as well as with performance and visual artists. He trained at the Jerusalem School of Visual Theatre.
Sound
For the Almeida: Little Revolution; King Charles III (also West End / Broadway); American Psycho (also Broadway); Festen (also West End / Broadway).
Recent theatre includes: Amadeus; The Threepenny Opera; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; wonder.land; Behind The Beautiful Forevers; Everyman; London Road (National Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre / West End / Broadway); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre / New York / West End); Skylight (West End / Broadway); The Audience (West End / Broadway); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End); Measure For Measure; If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me (Young Vic); The Emperor (Young Vic / HOME Manchester); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic / St Ann’s Warehouse New York); The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic /West End).
Paul received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Olivier Award for Billy Elliot The Musical, Tony nominations for One Man, Two Guvnors in 2012 and Mary Stuart in 2009, an Evening Standard Award for Festen, an Olivier Award for Saint Joan and a Drama Desk Award for The Pillowman.
Video
For the Almeida: Oresteia; 1984 (also Headlong / Nottingham Playhouse / West End).
As Video Designer, theatre, dance and opera include: The Red Barn (National Theatre London); Democracy (Rapture Theatre); Fracked! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Meeting Bea (The Old Laundry Theatre); Show Boat ( New London Theatre); If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me (Young Vic); Blood Wedding (Dundee Rep / Graeae / Derby Playhouse); Stemmer (Bergen National Opera); Scale (Scottish Dance Theatre); Letters Home: England in a Pink Blouse (Grid Iron / Edinburgh International Book Festival); A Christmas Carol (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Effect, Love Your Soldiers; The History Boys (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Quiz Show; Tree of Knowledge (Traverse Theatre); Carousel (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); White Rose (Firebrand Theatre); 8 (Glasgay Festival); Biding Time (Remix) (A Band Called Quinn / Tromolo Productions); Ghost Patrol (Scottish Opera / Music Theatre Wales); Educating Ronnie (HighTide / MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling); Can We Talk About This? (DV8); Clockwork (Visible Fictions / Scottish Opera); Girl X; 99… 100; Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland); Playback (Ankur Productions); The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo; Bright Black (Vox Motus); We Dance WeeGroove (Stillmotion); Treasure Island; One Giant Leap (Wee Stories); Promises Promises (Random Accomplice); Cresseid (Edinburgh International Festival); White Tea (Fire Exit); The Tailor of Inverness (Dogstar).
As Video Co-designer: Ten Billion (59 Productions / Royal Court); As One (Royal Ballet).
As Projection Designer: Wild Swans (Young Vic / ART).
Tim has worked as head of video for the National Theatre of Scotland and toured internationally. His work has been seen in places as diverse as Sydney Opera House and the Shetland Isles.
He was nominated for the 2014 “Knights of Illumination” Award for Theatre Projection Design for 1984.
Casting
For the Almeida: Oil; Uncle Vanya; Medea; Oresteia; Game; Mr Burns; Chimerica (also West End); Before the Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The Homecoming; Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Out of the Fog.
Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre); Yerma; Blue/Orange; The Trial; Ah, Wilderness!; Man; A View from the Bridge (Young Vic / West End / Broadway); Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; A Doll’s House (Young Vic / West End / BAM); The Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway; (Young Vic); Hamlet (Barbican); The Nether (also West End); Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; Clybourne Park (also West End); The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); Martyr; The Events; The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); A Chorus of Disapproval; South Downs / The Browning Version; Absent Friends; Backbeat; Arcadia; Swimming with Sharks; As You Like It; Antarctica; The Weir (West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End / Sydney Festival); Pool (no water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi: A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International Festival / Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin).
Film includes: The Exception; Departure; Astoria; Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest.
Julia is an Associate Artist at the Young Vic.
Associate Director
For the Almeida, as Associate Director: The Odyssey; The Illiad; 1984; (also UK and international tour/West End).
As Director: A Marked Man (HighTide); 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic); The Seagull (Bloomsbury Theatre).
As Associate Director: The Red Barn (National Theatre); Bad Jews (West End).
As Assistant/Staff Director: Three Days in the Country; A Small Family Business (National Theatre); The Nether (West End); Romeo and Juliet (Headlong / UK tour); Noises Off (Old Vic / UK tour); Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal, Bath / UK tour); The Alchemist (Liverpool Playhouse).
Daniel is an Associate Artist at HighTide.
Resident Direction
As Director, theatre includes: Fight Club (site specific); Hypothetical; Lost and Found (Rapid Write Response, Theatre503); The Fall of the House of Usher (Central St. Martins); Inland Empire (site specific); Faustus; The Pillowman (American Repertory Theater / Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club).
As Assistant Director, theatre includes: A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts; Glitterland; Chamber Piece; A Streetcar Named Desire; Woyzeck (Secret Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith); Le triomphe de l’amour (Bulandra Theatre); One Arm (and a Leg) (Theater for a New City); The Untitled Project (Gene Frankel Theater); The Space Between (American Repertory Theater / Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club); Mnemonic (New College Theater).
Ilinca was the Associate Director on the Secret Theatre national tour.She trained at Harvard and Birkbeck, University of London.
Costume Supervision
Theatre includes: Photograph 51 (West End); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Strange Interlude; Antigone; Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre); Fathers and Sons; The Night Alive; Lower Ninth; Les Parents Terribles (Donmar Warehouse); The Pride; Macbeth (Jamie Lloyd Season Trafalgar Studios); Quartett (Linbury Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (The Old Vic); Batman World Arena Tour (International tour).
Musicals include: Dirty Dancing (Original West End, UK, European and South African tours); From Here to Eternity (West End); The Bodyguard (West End and UK tour); Hairspray (West End and UK tour).
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
Handmaiden
We have partnered with RADA to enable four third year RADA Acting BA students to join each performance for the 5th Act as Mary Stuart's handmaidens. Founded in 1904 by leading members of the profession, RADA provides world renowned vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technicians. RADA is delighted to be working with the Almeida Theatre and Robert Icke on Mary Stuart, enabling these students at the very start of their careers to work with major theatre artists. In addition to these performances these students will perform across 13 stage productions and 6 short films at RADA, all of which are open to the public.
www.rada.ac.uk
★★★★ Stevenson and Williams are exceptional... a remarkably satisfying achievement
Independent
The running time is approximately 3 hours and 5 minutes including a 20 minute interval.
Latecomers will not be admitted until the interval.
Interactive Timeline
Examine the historical events leading up to Mary Stuart that inspired Schiller's play.
An Historic Meeting
In 1562 Elizabeth and Mary were to finally meet face-to-face. What went wrong?
Tudor Branding
How did the Monarchy 'sell' the Tudor regime to the people?
Cast
Alexander Cobb
Rudi Dharmalingam
Vincent Franklin
Joshua James
David Jonsson
John Light
Carmen Munroe
Eileen Nicholas
Daniel Rabin
Sule Rimi
Juliet Stevenson
Alan Williams
Lia Williams
Adaptation and Direction Robert Icke
Set and Costume Design
Hildegard Bechtler
Composition Laura Marling
Lighting Jackie Shemesh
Sound Paul Arditti
Video Tim Reid
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Associate Director Daniel Raggett
Resident Direction Ilinca Radulian
Costume Supervision Anna Josephs