Mary Stuart - Friedrich von Schiller

Category: Full Cast, Plays & Theater
Language: English
Keywords: L.A. Theatre Works

Written by Friedrich von Schiller
Read by Alex Kingston, Jill Gascoine, Simon Templeman, W. Morgan Sheppard, Alan Shearman, Christopher Neame, Martin Jarvis, Matt Gaydos, Seamus Dever, Kenneth Danziger, Sheelagh Cullen
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Wrestling with her own conscience, the Queen agonizes over Mary’s fate, amidst fears for her own life.

Includes an interview with Jane Dunn, author of Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Sheelagh Cullen as Hanna Kennedy, Mary’s Nurse
Kenneth Danziger as Amias Paulet, Knight and Guardian of Mary
Seamus Dever as Mortimer, Paulet’s Nephew
Jill Gascoine as Elizabeth, Queen of England
Matt Gaydos as O’Kelly, Page and Officer of the Guard
Martin Jarvis as Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer
Alex Kingston as Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland
Christopher Neame as William Davison, Count Bellievre
Alan Shearman as Melvil, Count Aubespine
W. Morgan Sheppard as George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
Simon Templeman as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 2006.

2 hrs