QUEEN MARGARET

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ADAPTED BY JEANNIE O’HARE

Directed by Philip J. Hickman

July 30 – August 16, 2020
Thursdays through Sundays @8pm
Schiller Park Amphitheatre

ABOUT

Queen Margaret is a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays, focusing on the life and story of Queen Margaret of Anjou, one of the most powerful women of her era. The story unfolds as Margaret grows from a young queen bound by the constraints of tradition to the ruling force in the War of the Roses, protecting her son in a chaotic time of political strife and providing a future for her nation.

CAST

QUEEN MARGARET: Jennifer Feather Youngblood

YORK: Beth Josephsen

JOAN OF ARC: Eliya Smith

HUME: Wilma Hatton

WARWICK: Dakota Thorn

HENRY VI: Erik Bobbitt

PRINCE EDWARD/RUTLAND: David Shaffer

SUFFOLK/CLIFFORD: Leo Santucci

GLOUCESTER/TUTOR: Casey Costello

SOMERSET/RICHARD III: Duncan McKennie

EDWARD IV/CARDINAL: Jabari Johnson

REBELS/CITIZENS: Maggie O’Brien

REBELS/CITIZENS: Eileen O’Brien