THEATRE REVIEW: Elizabeth I's violent life reimagined as part The Crown, part Criminal Minds. thealchemyatx
Shakespeare's history plays, dramatizing five generations of medieval power struggles for the British throne, focus largely on the kings. In more modern times, with the equality of the sexes given greater priority, the queens are finally getting their due in plays that include, and Kate Hennig's Queenmaker Trilogy, which explores the lives of three Tudor sovereigns.
Hennig's plays, which recently premiered at the Stratford Festival in Canada, suggest that the more things change, the more they remain the same. And so, we find her 16th-century characters speaking in contemporary tongue and wearing contemporary clothing as the female royals do battle with all things misogynistic and the relentless need to prove themselves.
reimagines the story of the young daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and touches on victim shaming, the power of the popular press, and sexual politics., which was given a staged reading at Alchemy Theatre in 2018 and currently enjoys its Texas premiere production, 15-year-old Princess Elizabeth , known as Bess, finds herself being interrogated by the two-faced Lord Protector Ted and his brutally cold henchwoman, Eleanor .
The play unfolds as a modern-day procedural drama, a format conducive to all the intriguing mystery and dramatic discovery.
The stationary set consists of a long table for interrogation and two raised rooms encased in hanging, translucent plastic curtains built for torture. It is wonderfully menacing, as are the power suits worn by the two tormentors . Director Michael Cooper's staging is simple and effective, but the awkward actor-performed swapping of props during scene shifts kills much of the production's momentum as well as the urgency needed to sustain the procedural drama tropes.
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