Queens

In the organizer's words:

Two possible queens, two worlds: Elizabeth, Protestant and daughter of Anne Boleyn - the woman for whom King Henry the Eighth broke with the Catholic Church and the Pope. She was beheaded when Elisabeth was three years old. Elizabeth is branded a "bastard" and excluded from the succession to the throne - but ultimately becomes Queen of England.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Catholic, widowed at the age of seventeen. Her second husband is murdered and she herself is imprisoned. She manages to escape from captivity to England, into the hands of her rival. And Elizabeth is faced with an impossible decision: if she executes Mary, she creates a martyr for the still strong Catholic opposition. If she does not, her opponents will always have a potential queen to put on the throne. Mary's imprisonment lasts eighteen years until she finally loses her head.

Can there really only be one? Couldn't the "Game of Thrones" end differently? Two women who rise to the top through the turmoil of their time, powerful and yet dependent on the social conditions of their time, exposed to violence and exercising violence. Queens questions our image of female power and the possibility of solidarity and taking different paths within the prevailing conditions.

Queens: Theater Dortmund