IT’S WEDNESDAY, AND somewhere near you, an “entirely new” assessment of Mary Queen of Scots is sure to be taking place. For Londoners, there’s the latest production of Schiller’s Mary Stuart, directed by Phillyda Lloyd, which has just opened at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, Covent Garden. Italian music lovers can chase new performances of Donizetti’s opera. And for intrepid tourists there will be the guidebook footnotes to almost any Scottish castle home noting that Mary Queen of Scots, fled, slept, danced or plotted therein. “The patron saint of the Scottish heritage industry” as The Scotsman once described her.for more click here
