Lord Darnley And The Fair Devil Of Scotland

The Leeds Waits tell the tragic story of Mary Queen of Scots (the Fair Devil of Scotland) and her second husband, Lord Darnley of Temple Newsam, parents of the future King James I of England, on the 450th anniversary of Darnley’s assassination.

Follow Mary’s troubled life in the Courts of Scotland and France and subsequent exile in England as they perform the Scottish, French, Italian and English music she would have known, placing it in context with narration and incidental puppetry.