Our local Chesterton Academy did a production of Come Rack! Come Rope! The play is an adaptation by Dale Ahlquist and Adrian Ahlquist of the novel by Robert Hugh Benson.
In the novel, Queen Elizabeth only appears once in a scene in which she processes through London. In the adaptation, they added a scene about William Cecil, Lord Burleigh convincing Elizabeth to execute Mary, Queen of Scots.
The directors asked two teachers and one former teacher - me! - to play the roles of Elizabeth, Burleigh (again, me), and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Part of the pleasure for me was that I was in this production with some of my former students, some of whom I had directed in plays.
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