The Goethe-Institute Sri Lanka in collaboration with the theatre group Inter Act Art and the Deutsches Theater Berlin will hold an online stream of the stage drama “Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller” directed by Anne Lenk.
Synopsis
Mary Stuart, Catholic Queen of Scots, has fled from her people, who accuse her of contract killing her husband.
In England, she hopes for political asylum from her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth, but at the same time lays claim to her crown, whose rightful heir she sees herself as. She is captured and interned, and liberation attempts by young rescuers fail.
But Mary's splendour also radiates from the dungeon: she can count on a loyal following and knows France is at her side.
After several foiled assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth, which are blamed on Mary, she is to be executed. In Elisabeth's advisory staff, opinions differ, an attempt at reconciliation in the form of a meeting between the two queens fails magnificently. Nevertheless, Elisabeth hesitates to carry out the death sentence. She fears the decision in a duel that no winner will know.
Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart is a game of intrigue in the web of politics, religion, love and power, to which all figures are inescapably subjected.
Schiller draws a tableau of powerful people who shy away from responsibility and suffocate in their positions. And he shows them as deeply human characters who, in their actions or non-actions, are lonely, isolated and unfree, repeatedly end up with themselves. Sartre: "Man is condemned to freedom. Because once he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
“This stream is presented in 4K and ultra hi definition audio.”
Colombo Theatre Forum
Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
Moderated by M. Safeer
Venue: Goethe-Institute
Date and Time: 23.3.2022 at 05:00 pm.
(This event has limited capacity and registration is needed)