Because I Am Your Queen (a feminist fantasia in one act) by
At the spa retreat for Queens a coterie of powerful women characters are freed from their historical and literary context; given a mysterious opportunity to rewrite their stories. Mary Stuart and Lucretia Borgia confront the persistent rumors that they are husband-murdering sluts. Queen Elizabeth and La Reine weigh their sovereignty and virginity. Medea is shunned. Hermione presides in stillness. And the spa...
At the spa retreat for Queens a coterie of powerful women characters are freed from their historical and literary context; given a mysterious opportunity to rewrite their stories. Mary Stuart and Lucretia Borgia confront the persistent rumors that they are husband-murdering sluts. Queen Elizabeth and La Reine weigh their sovereignty and virginity. Medea is shunned. Hermione presides in stillness. And the spa attendants are far more than they seem. Riffing off old plays, familiar and forgotten (Friedrich Schiller's MARIA STUART, Jean Cocteau's THE EAGLE HAS TWO HEADS, Victor Hugo's LUCRETIA BORGIA, Euripides' MEDEA and Shakespeare's A WINTER'S TALE), BECAUSE I AM YOUR QUEEN is a story of power, sex and sisterhood that is fresh, absurd, provocative and true. Dialogue spans bits of the classics, bytes of current feminism and ... dark matter.