EdFringe Review #15: Caged

★★★★☆ - Commanding

Confined behind bars before her audience, Isabella MacDuff takes to the stage to tell her own story in Caged, written and directed by Colette Swan for Pigeon Cote Productions.

A descendant of the Macduff of Shakespeare fame, Isabella exerted her familial right to crown the King of Scots upon the coronation of Robert the Bruce, and was soon thereafter imprisoned by Edward I for her troubles: suspended in a cross-shaped iron cage at Berwick Castle, from which she speaks to those gathered below.

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