“Heads.” One word, and one coin toss, decides which roles Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams will play on the night: Mary Queen of Scots, or her rival Elizabeth I. Last night Williams took the latter – the company immediately bowing to her. It was a comic moment that underlined a key theme: fortune is fickle, and power is a mirage.
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