Articles Tagged With: Lise Bruneau

Lise Bruneau (left) as Mary Stuart with Lesley Malin (right) as Elizabeth Queen of England in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's Mary Stuart đź“·Kiirstn Pagan Photography

Mary Stuart at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

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Diplomacy is nothing but a cockfight. Sounds a bit too modern for something that happened almost 440 years ago. And yet the striking political relevance inside Friederich Schiller’s Mary Stuart (new version adapted by Peter Oswald and currently directed by Ian Gallanar) is both eerie and chilling to the world we’re presently living in. This evocative drama, despite its hefty run-time, is impressive and exceedingly well-polished upon the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s main stage for their final indoor show of the 2024/2025 season.

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The cast of Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s The Oresteia. ???? Kiirstn Pagan Photography.

The Oresteia at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

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Do I remember this? Or is this what’s about to happen? This is no dream. This is no vision. This is the truth. Profound words. Or are they questions? What are words if not questions? You’ll hear them over and over— though never truly in one voice as one might expect from a chorus in a Greek tragedy; their effect, however, is no less striking. Chesapeake Shakespeare Company presents The Oresteia freely adapted from Aeschylus by Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Lise Bruneau.

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