Mary of Scots, Her Last Letter

[ThistleDown]

If you happen to be in Vancouver Thursday, November 22, you might want to drop in. Presented by the SFU School for Scottish Studies.

Anna Hepburn, Mary Queen of Scots: The Last Letter (a dramatic production)

7:30-9:30 pm, Thursday, November 22, 2012. Room 1900, SFU Harbour Centre,
515 West Hastings St, Vancouver

The Vancouver premiere of an Edinburgh Fringe show, this one-woman play starts with Mary Stuart, sitting, writing a letter to the brother of her first husband, Henry III of France. (The material quoted is actually from the original letter written at that time, six hours before her execution.) During the course of writing the letter, Mary breaks off to recall her life and the events which have shaped her destiny and her ultimate tragic end. While listening to her recounting the exciting and disastrous situations that she had to face during her lifetime, the audience is taken through a roller-coaster ride of emotions. Her major life events include her idyllic early years in France, the excitement of her early marriage to Francis the Dauphin, his ill-fated and catastrophic death and her move to Scotland. We follow her struggle with the power-hungry Scottish nobles and the preacher John Knox, her marriage to the notorious Lord Darnley, his murder, and her disastrous marriage to Bothwell, right through to her imprisonment by her own cousin, Elizabeth I. Using only documented telling of events and conversations noted at that time, actress Anna Hepburn shows the brutality of the situations in which Mary found herself.

This event is open to the public. A donation of $10-12 is suggested.
Proceeds will go entirely to the actress.

[David Dubh]

Hey thistledown thanks for the info, I don't think I'll make it but it certainly sounds like it would be very interesting
Cheers David