Rona Munro’s vividly imagined trilogy brings to lifestyles 3 generations of Stewart kings who governed Scotland within the tumultuous 15th century.

James I: the most important Will continue the Lock explores the complicated personality of the vibrant Stewart King - poet, lover and law-maker.

Captured on the age of thirteen and topped King of Scots in an English felony, James I of Scotland is added domestic 18 years later with a ransom on his head and a brand new English bride. The state he returns to is terrible: the royal coffers empty and his nobles able to tear him aside on the first signal of weak point. made up our minds to convey the rule of thumb of legislation to a land riven through warring factions, James faces negative offerings if he's to avoid wasting himself, his Queen and the crown.

James II: Day of the Innocents depicts a violent royal playground from the point of view of the kid King and his contemporaries, in a terrifying area of sharp the teeth and lengthy knives.

James II turns into the prize in a vicious online game among Scotland’s strongest households. topped while purely six, deserted via his mom and separated from his sisters, the kid King is little greater than a puppet. there's just one good friend he can belief: William, the longer term Earl of Douglas. As James techniques maturity in an ever extra threatening international, he needs to struggle to maintain his tenuous grip at the crown whereas the nightmares of his adolescence stand up as soon as more.

James III: the genuine Mirror, just like the King himself, is vibrant and unpredictable, turning its cognizance to the ladies on the center of the royal court.

Charismatic, cultured, and captivated with grandiose schemes that his country can in poor health come up with the money for, James III is via turns enjoyed and loathed. Scotland thunders dangerously on the subject of civil battle, yet its destiny will be determined via James’ creative and resilient spouse, Queen Margaret of Denmark. Her love and transparent imaginative and prescient can store a delicate monarchy and rescue a suffering people.

Each play stands by myself as a special imaginative and prescient of a rustic tussling with its prior and destiny; considered jointly the trilogy creates an difficult and compelling narrative on Scottish tradition and nationhood, packed with playful wit and boisterous theatricality.

The James Plays premiered on the pageant Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2014 as a part of the Edinburgh overseas pageant, sooner than shifting to the nationwide Theatre, London. The trilogy used to be named top New Play on the night usual Theatre Awards 2014.

'a towering achievement... a latest vintage' - Evening Standard

'an outstanding dramatic achievement... Munro's script is the star... a banquet of theatrical may perhaps and blistering emotion' - Telegraph

'full of topical resonance... those are unequivocally performs for today... Munro skilfully interweaves the non-public and the political' - Guardian

'wit, punch and accessibility... this can be theatre that combines the non-public with the political to outstanding influence. ... The scope is Shakespearean, but Munro applies a latest sensibility to her medieval characters, who speak and swear in sleek tongue' - The Times

'Rona Munro’s 3 performs can stand optimistically on my own yet, taken jointly, have a scale and succeed in that's exciting and pleasing in equivalent measures' - Independent