A paranoid head of state, corrupt chief officers of intelligence, seemingly barbaric beauty corrections! Sound like headlines ripped from modern news rags? They aren’t they are key plot points for this hilarious farce focused on Elizabeth I of England. Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman is a devastating satire on politics in the Age of Reagan by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright / political activist Dario Fo.

Elizabeth is an aging, forgetful monarch, obsessed with appearances. She is also suspicious of Shakespeare, who has written a play about a Danish prince which Elizabeth is convinced is really about her. Fo creates a foul mouthed and incontinent monarch who is in the midst of a rebellion by her lover, Robert of Essex. Her advisors; a maid, the Chief of Police, and Mama ZaZa the Queen's personal beautician, are comically inept in giving assistance as Elizabeth deals with the troublesome Shakespeare and other issues of National importance .

Don’t miss this hilarious evening of theatre!

"Fo nails pretension and political chicanery with ridicule, laughter, sarcasm, irony and the grotesque.” Variety

September 20-22, 25-29 at 8 pm; September 23 & 30 at 2 pm in the Studio Theatre of Jones HallMeredith College Campus. “pay what you can” performance September 19^th.