The Life and Death of Queen Margaret

The female character with the most lines in Shakespeare's oeuvre is not Cleopatra, Rosalind or Juliet: It's Margaret of Anjou, one of the thorniest figures in the War of the Roses, who rises and falls in the Henry VI trilogy and returns to throw curses like hand grenades in Richard III. Real Live Theater culls the Margaret sections from all four plays to focus on her story; the eight-woman cast is directed by Toby Vera Bercovici and choreographed by Annelise Nielsen.