'SIX DEAD QUEENS...

...and an inflatable Henry!'

A rare and glorious opportunity for a cast of six women.
A sword-wobbling, anachronistic romp on a bed.

The play begins with the six wives drinking early morning tea, reading the tabloids and bemoaning the lot of their contemporary counterparts.
Six queens in a four poster bed. The marital bed. The bed rock of the family the Church and the State.
Six wives, betrayed, be-headed, barren, bemused, broken and bored, but each willing to enter into serious pillow fight tournaments to assert her position as the rightful queen. Stuck in a time warp and destined to squabble endlessly over one fat and flaccid inflatable spouse, the competition is intense.
Swords are drawn both literally and metaphorically. With no other way to define themselves they seem set on a course of mutual self-destruction. But as their constraining corsets of expectation are thrown off in their efforts to validate themselves, a spirit of rebellion is unleashed.
Perversions, subversions, wild parodic dances and unholy rituals create a new order - an anarchic utopia for all dead queens!

Bringing together an exceptional and highly experienced team, including Bouge de La [Designers], Deb Barnard [Co-Director], and six multi-talented actors, FOURSIGHT continued its drive to re-evaluate history through the eyes of women. The Company furthered its commitment to total theatre; theatre which merges text, movement, and music to engage the intellect, the senses and the emotions in equal measure. The play explored the physical, darkly comic theatricality of the 'bouffon' - the outcast - subverting music, language and the dances of the period and extending the existing grotesquerie of the costumes and cosmetics.

This project was a development in both content and style of Bloody Mary and The Virgin Queen, originally created and toured by the Company in 1993. The play was a huge success both nationally and internationally with a return trip to Canada in 1996. It is not at all necessary however to have seen Bloody Mary and the Virgin Queen in order to enjoy Six Dead Queens...!

'There simply isn't a weak link in the chain .... It is a heady cocktail' The Stage