Photo Flash: The Faction's MARY STUART

2011 Peter Brook Empty Space Award winning company (Equity Ensemble Award for Schiller's The Robbers in association with The New Diorama Theatre,) The faction theatre company in association with The New Diorama Theatre, bring the tradition of REP back to London in 2012. With a season that represents the body of work produced by the ensemble over the last 3 years.

Shakespeare (TWELFTH NIGHT,) Schiller (Mary Stuart,) and Strindberg (MISS JULIE) help the company realise their ambitious goals of creating a permanent full time ensemble within central London.

"This is the first time we've had the opportunity to move towards the REP system, which is something we'd always hoped to do. Our goal has always been to be a permanent ensemble in the way that many international companies exist and making that idea work in the UK". - Mark Leipacher: Artistic Director

Mary Stuart by Schiller in a new adaptation by Daniel Miller & Mark Leipacher
January at 7:30pm - New Diorama Theatre

"With the Queen I share my blood, my rank, my sex. With her alone as a cousin, a sovereign, a woman, may I talk of freedom." A political prisoner is accused of religious extremism, incitement of war and masterminding assassination. She has been retrospectively charged with a law that was invented specifically for her. She has been denied access to witnesses and found guilty by a jury - but not a jury of her peers. That would be impossible; her only peer is Queen Elizabeth I. This presents Elizabeth with a terrifying dilemma: to reign in fear for the rest of her life or to have her cousin and fellow queen executed. "If music be the food of love, play on"

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Photo credit: RICHARD DAVENPORT

Kate Sawyer and cast

Tom Radford, Derval Mellett, Gareth Fordred & Richard Delaney

Derval Mellet & Kate Sawyer