The big plot details are being kept under wraps, although it’s safe to say that a disaster involving the Queen Vic will serve ... Gibbon’s classic trilogy, A Scots Quair.

And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and ...

Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

Her new film turns up the freezing unit to 11 in a long riff on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, moving between ... Like Andersen’s story, The Ice Tower centers on a girl on a quest ...

It turns out she’s kipping in a film studio, where a production of The Snow Queen – one of her favourite ... lighting and shadowplay in The Ice Tower bolsters the dark fairy tale mood, which ...

In the fairy-tale-adjacent world of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s frigid dark fantasy “The Ice Tower,” an orphan runs ... they’re shooting is “The Snow Queen,” aspects of which echo ...

Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, she made her way back to Scotland, where she had become queen in 1542 when just six days old. Musgrave focuses on her years as ...

A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been ...

Then in 1977 came her full-scale opera Mary, Queen of Scots, given by Scottish Opera, which they brought to London for a couple of performances at Sadler’s Wells in 1980. English National Opera ...

Hadzihalilovic is a director who refuses to compromise her very distinctive vision and that is the case here, even if The Ice Tower ... is The Snow Queen. Initially seen through slits in the ...

Mary, Queen of Scots at London Coliseum review: a long overdue standing ovation - 4/5 Thea Musgrave’s powerful and ...

Her last stroke of luck is to be adopted by the Snow Queen herself: Marion Cotillard, playing the most manipulative diva since Norma Desmond. Straightforward as this sounds, the world of The Ice Tower ...