About the Show

Real Live Theatre presents a dance-theatre piece which liberates some of Shakespeare's most poignant feminist writing from plays about men and their experience of history.

Queen Margaret was a fierce, strong-willed, and independent woman, both historically and in Shakespeare’s 'Henry VI' trilogy and 'Richard III.' This piece brings her to the forefront of her own story by combining extant scenes from Shakespeare and occasional adapter-written chunks of iambic pentameter. What it cannot tell through words, it shows through choreography.

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"As a result of Bercovici's and Dan Morbyrne's tight script (woven from Shakespeare but 'funneled and augmented') and Myka Plunkett's beautiful acting, Margaret of Anjou becomes decidedly whole and decidedly human...And the choice to cast an all-female ensemble, in a reversal of the Shakespearean norm, is a perfect touch. Music, lighting, dance, and inventive staging combine with a wise script, a unique aesthetic, and powerful acting to create the ultimate 'total work of art.'"
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