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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Dee Jefferson

Isabelle Huppert to headline 2026 Adelaide festival in ‘astounding’ role as Mary, Queen of Scots

Isabelle Huppert in the 2019 production of Mary Said What She Said, dressed in a 16th-century style gown and standing on a stark stage.
‘Casting a spell over her audience’: Isabelle Huppert in Mary Said What She Said, which will be part of an exclusive season for Adelaide festival 2026. Photograph: Lucie Jansch/Adelaide festival

French screen and stage legend Isabelle Huppert will bring her acclaimed performance as Mary Stuart, AKA Mary, Queen of Scots, to Australia in March as part of an exclusive season for the 2026 Adelaide festival.

Mary Said What She Said, a one-woman show created by late theatre luminary Robert Wilson for Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, where it premiered in 2019, stars Huppert as the ill-fated monarch and devout Catholic whose dispute over the English throne with her Protestant cousin Queen Elizabeth I cost her her life.

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