Mary Stuart - Softcover

Kate Mulvany

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1760622923 ISBN 13: 9781760622923

Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS), 2020

Synopsis

Two powerful women, beloved by their people'one sits on the throne; the other is locked in a cell. Kate Mulvany's smart and witty adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart is a tale of two queens at war. In the legendary rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, great forces are at play, with nations at stake and citizens ready to fight for the just cause. On the one hand there is principle and ideology; on the other, jealousy and pride. But there is also love. For who else could understand what torments a queen better than another queen? Mulvany turns her feminist lens on this brutal and moving story of cousins pitted against each other by politics and circumstance, trapped on different sides of history's coin.

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About the Author

KATE MULVANY is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Mulvany's play The Rasputin Affair has recently been produced at the Ensemble Theatre and her play Jasper Jones, an adaptation of Craig Silvey's novel, has enjoyed great success at Belvoir Street Theatre and the MTC in two separate productions after its Barking Gecko premiere in 2015. In 2015 Mulvany's play Masquerade, a reimagining of the much-loved children's book by Kit Williams, was performed at the 2015 Sydney Festival and the State Theatre Company of South Australia as well as Melbourne Festival, produced by Griffin Theatre Company. Her autobiographical play The Seed (Belvoir Street Theatre) won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production. With Mulvany performing in the play, it received great critical success and toured nationally and is currently being developed into a feature film. Mulvany's Medea, co-written with Anne-Louise Sarks, having been produced by Belvoir Street Theatre in 2012, won several awards including an AWGIE Award and five Sydney Theatre Awards, and has gone on to be produced in Poland and at the Gate Theatre in London, to rave reviews. Other plays and musicals include: The Danger Age, Blood and Bone, The Web, Somewhere (co-written with Tim Minchin for the Joan Sutherland PAC) and Storytime, which won Mulvany the 2004 Philip Parsons Award. As a screenwriter, Mulvany has worked on the development of several television series for Australian production houses and she is developing a feature film based on The Seed and an untitled Matchbox Pictures drama. Mulvany is also an award-winning stage and screen actor with credits with many of the major Sydney theatre companies and in many television dramas and films. Most recently Mulvany has played the eponymous role in Richard III (Bell Shakespeare) to great critical and popular acclaim.

Edition details

• Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760622923
• ISBN 13: 9781760622923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82