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‘A thrilling, role-reversing Mary Stuart’

Sunday Times

‘Robert Icke’s explosive production’

The Observer

‘Steamy royal intrigue at the toss of a coin’

Daily Mail

‘Icke’s ferociously good update’

Time Out

‘Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams must have nerves of steel’

Sunday Express

‘It’s fascinating theatre — fiercely pertinent, exhilaratingly potent’

The Times

Mary Stuart – a new adaptation by Robert Icke
Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It’s all in the execution.

Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at the Almeida Theatre in 2016-17, Robert Icke’s new adaptation of Mary Stuart transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End from 13 January for a limited run.

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 (Hamlet) and Lia Williams (Oresteia) trade the play’s central roles, decided at each performance by the toss of a coin.

Production photography from the Almeida Theatre run © Manuel Harlan

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Performance Dates and Times

13 Jan – 31 Mar 2018

Monday to Saturday 7.30pm

Wednesday and Saturday matinee 2pm

Running time 3 hours and 5 minutes (including a 20 minute interval)

Prices

PREVIEW PRICING

£55, £45, £30, £25, £10

Premiums £85

MAIN RUN PRICING

£65, £55, £40, £25, £10

Premiums £95

UNDER £25 FOR UNDER 25s

A limited number of tickets for £25 and under are reserved at every performance for people aged 25 and under. Available to purchase in person at the box office with valid age ID. Subject to availability.

 

All prices include £1.75 restoration levy

Duke of York's Theatre

St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4BG

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Cast

  • Juliet Stevenson

    Juliet Stevenson
    Mary Stuart / Elizabeth I
    Juliet Stevenson

    Juliet Stevenson

    Mary Stuart / Elizabeth I

    Juliet Stevenson is one of Britain’s leading actors. She has worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Royal Court, winning an Olivier award for her performance as Paulina in Death and The Maiden in 1991. Most recent theatre credits include starring roles in Mary Stuart and Hamlet (both directed by Robert Icke and transferring to the West End) and of course Beckett’s Happy Days at The Young Vic which played to huge critical acclaim and which due to popular demand returned for a second run.

    Her films include Truly, Madly, Deeply; Bend it Like Beckham; When Did You Last See Your Father?; Being Julia; Pierrepoint; Mona Lisa Smile; Diana and Departure.

    Recent television work include starring roles in Williams brothers’ thriller One of Us for BBC1 and Sky Living’s supernatural thriller The Enfield Haunting as well as playing series regulars on two series of Atlantis and The Village. Other television work includes Place of Execution, The Accused, The Hour, and White Heat.

    Upcoming releases include feature film Let Me Go.

    She was awarded the CBE in 1999. In addition to her Olivier award, Juliet has been nominated a further four times and is four times BAFTA nominated for her film and television work.

  • Lia Williams

    Lia Williams
    Mary Stuart / Elizabeth I
    Lia Williams

    Lia Williams

    Mary Stuart / Elizabeth I

    Lia Williams most recently appeared in the Almeida’s production of Oresteia (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress) and Harold Pinter’s Celebration. Other theatre credits include: The Revengers’ Comedies in the West End (Critics Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award, Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy Performance); Old Times in the West End; Arcadia and Skylight on Broadway, at the National Theatre and in the West End (Tony and Olivier Award nominations for Best Actress); Earthquakes in London, The Hothouse and Mappa Mundi at the National Theatre; Oleanna, King Lear and My Child at the Royal Court; The Homecoming at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the West End and on Broadway; and The Lover and The Collection at the Donmar Warehouse.

    Her television credits include: Strike: Silkworm; The Missing; The Crown; Secret State; Doc Martin; May 33rd (BAFTA nomination for Best Actress); The Russian Bride; Imogen’s Face; A Shot Through the Heart; Flowers of the Forest; Seaforth; and Mr Wroe’s Virgins.

    Film includes: The Foreigner; Jonathan Toomey; The King is Alive; Different for Girls; The Fifth Province; Firelight; Dirty Weekend; and La Suite Blanche-Neige.

    As Director, her credits include The Match Box for the Liverpool Playhouse and the Tricycle Theatre and films Feathers, The Stronger (BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film), Dog Alone, and the feature documentary Nanabozhung.

Creative Team

  • Robert Icke
    Director

    Robert Icke

    Director

    Robert is the Associate Director of the Almeida.

    For the Almeida: adapting and directing Mary Stuart; Uncle Vanya; Oresteia (also West End); and, with Duncan Macmillan, 1984 (also West End, National and International Tours). As director: Hamlet, The Fever; Mr Burns; The Odyssey; The Iliad.

    Theatre includes: The Red Barn (National Theatre); Boys; Romeo and Juliet; Decade (Headlong).
    For Oresteia, Robert won the Olivier Award for ‘Best Director’ in 2016 and the ‘Best Director’ Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2015. 1984 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.

  • Hildegard Bechtler
    Set & Costume Design

    Hildegard Bechtler

    Set & Costume Design

    For the Almeida: Hamlet; Mary Stuart; 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 (Royal Shakespeare Company); 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 received 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.