James II at Festival Theatre

Dates: (2/4/2016 - 2/13/2016 )

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Festival Theatre

13 / 29 Nicolson Street
Edinburgh,Edinburgh EH8 9FT

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Tickets: £26.00 - £35.00

Running Time: 2 hours 22 minutes (including interval)

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In the second play of Rona Munro’s thrilling trilogy, innocent games merge with murderous intent in a violent royal playground of shifting realities and paranoia.

A six year old boy is crowned King of Scots. Soon James II is the prize in a vicious game between the country’s most powerful families, for whoever has the person of the boy king, controls the state. Seen through a child's eyes, the Scottish court is a world of monsters with sharp teeth and long knives.

Growing up alone, abandoned by his mother and separated from his sisters, James II is little better than a puppet. There is only one relationship he can trust, his growing friendship with another lonely boy, William, the future Earl of Douglas. The two boys cling together as they try to survive the murder and mayhem that surrounds them.

But the independence and power of young adulthood bring James into an even more threatening world. He has to fight the feuding nobles who still want to control him, he has to make brutal choices about the people he loves best, he has to struggle to keep his tenuous grip on the security of the crown and on his sanity....while the nightmares and demons of his childhood rise up again with new and murderous intent.

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Written By Rona Munro
Directed by Laurie Sansom

Featuring Blythe Duff as Isabella of Lennox.

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