Word: aswirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater. Its smallest scene is a Big Scene; it tosses mere suicide into a scene shift. A sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns on whether Mary's royal cousin Elizabeth will sign the death warrant. The scene shifts back and forth between Mary (Irene Worth) in her castle prison and an autocratic but waveringly feminine Elizabeth (Eva Le Gallienne) in her palace...