A nation divided with history hanging in the balance: Robert Icke’s new version of Frederich Schiller’s “Mary Stuart” reflects this runaway year. With a coin toss each night determining which roles actresses Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams will play — one England’s Queen Elizabeth I, the other Scotland’s doomed Mary Stuart — it’s not so much……

via London Theater Review: ‘Mary Stuart’ at the Almeida Theater — Variety