Queen Killers
There are the defenders of the rules, benders of the rules and craziest of all – those who smash the rules…
A conscious re-construction of the power wrangling by five advisors who pressured Queen Elizabeth to execute Mary Queen of Scots. These advisors find that the power to act is not enough to protect from responsibility. As the blame settles all wield their own power to fight for survival. The explicit rules are not the real rules in this power struggle.
Queen Killers: fun till it’s deadly. This new work for theatre explores how powerful people maintain control; about the loyalty and love necessary to do the unthinkable. Developed over the last two years, written by Angela Buckingham, directed by Cassandra Fumi this play illuminates the personal and emotional workings of politics in all its brutality and humour.
It is the third play written by Angela Buckingham for The Shift Theatre. It is the on-going creative relationship that allows for this experimentation with form where the allocation of character and the building of dynamics is a process shared with the audience.
