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Dateline: 14th January, 2005

Scary Little Girls Revive Maria Stuart

Theatre company Scary Little Girls are to revive Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart, translated by Hilary Collier Sy-Quia and Peter Oswald, at Southwark's Union Theatre from 10th february (previews from 8th) to 6th March (not Sundays and Mondays).

Terrorists, conspiracies, arbitrary arrest and detention, interrogation and intercepted correspondence – Schiller’s eerily resonant masterpiece.

Two religions divide a people and a land.
Two rulers exploit religion to control their people.
Maria Stuart’s head is on the block – she has three days to save herself or be saved.
Queen Elizabeth wants her dead but doesn’t want to get her hands dirty.
Two women fight tooth and claw for power in a man’s world.

2005 commemorates the second Centenary of Friedrich Schiller’s death. Schiller wrote Maria Stuart in response to the political turbulence caused by the American and French revolutions. But his themes – the individual versus the state… religion versus the state… freedom of the individual – still prevail in today’s post-9/11 climate. In Maria Stuart, Schiller offers a disturbing analysis of the problems that arise whenever political expediency masquerades as justice and judges are subjected to the pressures of power politics or ideological conflict.

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