SEASON 25 | January 2013
Elizabeth: Heart of a King
A new play by Lorella Loftus | Presented
by the VORTEX
Elizabeth I was one of the most luminous, fascinating, and formidable
women in history. Experience her as she has never been seen before
in Elizabeth: Heart of a King, a new play by Lorella Loftus. This
VORTEX workshop production explores the formative times in her life
as a young woman and the main events of her life as a queen and as
an icon. A woman of contradictions, Elizabeth was brave and vulnerable,
intelligent and ambivalent, flirtatious and icy, and fundamentally,
very human. Three different women play Elizabeth at different stages
of her life-- a lone woman struggling to retain her political and
personal power in a male-dominated world. Henry VIII, Thomas Seymour,
Robert Dudley, and William Cecil are just some of the men who had
a major influence on her life who appear in the play.