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Queen Margaret

Queen Margaret

Bard in the Botanics present a new adaptation based on Shakespeare's Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3 and Richard III

‘Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible;
But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,
O, ten times more, than tigers…’ Read more …

At the tender age of fifteen a French noblewoman becomes Queen of England. Beset on all sides by greed, hatred and treachery, Margaret doesn’t cower or hide. A bewitching and dangerous woman, she becomes a commanding monarch and a terrifying warrior. A woman who wields a sword as viciously as she wields her words, Margaret will not be crossed, crushed or beaten…

Taking her story from Shakespeare’s King Henry the Sixth and Richard the Third, Queen Margaret tells the thrilling and violent tale of a real life queen who was afraid of nothing and no-one.

Taking her story from Shakespeare’s King Henry the Sixth and Richard the Third, Queen Margaret tells the thrilling and violent tale of a real life queen who was afraid of nothing and no-one.


The critical consensus

It ought to work but a lack of dramatic light and shade and performances that rarely stray from the declamatory have a deadening effect.

**(*)(*)(*)Robert Dawson Scott, The Times

A beautiful and infinitely watchable central performance from Sarah Chalcroft as Margaret.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

It's an audacious and thrilling rewrite.

****(*)Neil Cooper, The Herald

Where and when?

Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow from Thursday June 24, 2010, until Friday July 9, 2010. 8.15pm. Thurs 24th June is a preview (£12/£8). Performance takes place in the Kibble Palace Glasshouse.. Tickets: £15/£10 (conc.). More info: http://www.bardinthebotanics.co.uk

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