The play “Mary Stuart” (1800) by the great German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) is based on documentary materials about the life of the last Catholic Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart. This is a story about the confrontation of two great women, the conflict of two queens. About the throne, the essence of the nature of power. About mercy, honor and pride. Insidiousness and love.
For more than two centuries, it has been telling us...
The play “Mary Stuart” (1800) by the great German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) is based on documentary materials about the life of the last Catholic Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart. This is a story about the confrontation of two great women, the conflict of two queens. About the throne, the essence of the nature of power. About mercy, honor and pride. Insidiousness and love.
For more than two centuries, it has been telling us about the price of freedom, the eternal conflict between "reason" and "emotions" in the human soul, the power of influence of public opinion on human life. About the struggle for dominance, which destroys their fates.
"Mary Stuart" staged by Ivan Uryvskyi is not a reconstruction of the events of the past, but, rather, a timeless story of the inner struggle and duality of the human essence. It is not a legend covered in museum dust, it's a story about us today, about people who make their choices every day.
