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Mary Stuart Donmar Warehouse Earlham Street, WC2 (0870 060 6624) ** Imagine the sensation if some German playwright dreamed up a play in which Margaret Thatcher came face to furious face with Edward Heath to thrash out their disagreements. The great 18th- century German playwright Friedrich Schiller, whose drama of revolution and desire, Don Carlos, proved a surprise hit in the West End this year, imagines a comparable meeting between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen Of Scots.
While the encounter never happened in real life, this imagined scene marks the decisive highpoint of a fascinating psychological drama. It would work still better in Phyllida Lloyd's lucid production if Harriet Walter's Elizabeth and Janet McTeer's Mary (right) carried full conviction as the troubled queens.See the full content of this document
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