National Theatre of Scotland

Mary Stuart resources

Whether you are a theatre student, theatre-maker or enthusiastic theatre-goer, we hope there’s something here to enhance your enjoyment and understanding of Mary Stuart.

• Find out how the director and writer approached the play from interviews with Vicky Featherstone and David Harrower.
• Discover where the designer
• . . . lighting designer
• . . . composer
• . . . and sound designer found their inspiration.
• Hear about the importance of costume to an actor
• . . . then understand the process of making the costumes.
• Listen to a sample of music from the production and hear how it was put together.
• Get a glimpse of what goes on inside the mind of the translator
• Read a critical and social insight into Schiller’s masterpiece by Professor Sarah Colvin of Edinburgh University.
• . . . and find out a little about Freidrich Schiller himself.

Our educational resources also include discussion points for the play as well as two extracts from David Harrower's text.

These Learn resources for Mary Stuart were researched and created by Naomi Ludlam.