Mary Stuart's Rudi Dharmalingam on Playing a Fictional Character in a History Play & More
The Almeida Theatre’s hypnotic revival of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart finds the mighty Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson tossing a coin each performance to see who gets to play each of the two leading roles—Elizabeth I or her cousin (and nemesis), Mary, Queen of Scots. But as the director Robert Icke’s production transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a West End&…