Event Description
Queen Elizabeth I spends the night with Shakespeare's company of actors, before the dawn execution of her love, The Earl of Essex. The age-old question of what makes a man a man and a woman a woman is central to a sparkling battle of wits between Elizabeth, who is every inch a woman, and Shakespeare's leading actor of female roles, who is every inch a man. Wit, drama and a performing bear, populate this award-winning play by one of Canada's greatest writers.