Mary Said What She Said

When the matchless French actress Isabelle Huppert (Elle) does theater, she likes to do it weird. She has worked twice before with the leading lion of the avant-garde theater establishment, director Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach): in Orlando (1993) and Quartet (2006). Their third collaboration is a 90-minute monologue about the divisive 16th-century royal Mary Stuart (a.k.a. Mary, Queen of Scots) by the American novelist Darryl Pinckney, set to a classical score by Ludovico Einaudi. The production, which premiered in France in 2019 and was seen at London's Barbican Center last year, is performed in French with English titles. Be prepared for strikingly stylized work.