She didn’t set out to write them as such, and she’s also not necessarily limiting the series to three: “I might write more history plays, is all I’m saying. So it was then I went, ‘I have to write another play,’ ” says Hennig. A characteristic aspect of Hennig’s Tudor plays is that they’re written in today’s language (within the first few pages of Mother’s Daughter, Mary rallies her supporters by saying “let’s get the hell out of Dodge”). “I’ve written contemporary plays with historic content, as opposed to modern-dress historical plays,” says Hennig. After our lunch she was headed to a preview matinee of Mother’s Daughter and then driving the 180 kilometres to Shaw for an evening Cyrano rehearsal.

Source: thestar June 12, 2019 09:56 UTC