Theatre | The Guardian: Like many British schoolchildren, Ava Pickett chanted the “Divorced, beheaded, died” rhyme about Henry VIII’s six wives – and it has stayed in her head ever since. So much so that her play 1536 pivots around the last days of the second wife, Anne Boleyn. Pickett’s history lessons covered Boleyn’s magnificent rise – which sparked a passion so great the king bent constitutional law to marry her – as well as the torrid details of her downfall and beheading.
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Living in these unprecedented times (something we have heard so much and so recently I just had to say it), I often feel like I’m just tired of living through historical events. I really just want to curl up and go to bed. But the one thing that’s been slightly enjoyable about life right now is how art truly is imitating it. Everyone says that art imitates life and blah-blah-blah; but never has it been clearer to me before. The surge in feminist work openly criticizing the government has been wild to watch as someone attending art school. From John Proctor to Ghosts, CMU’s season has strongly reflected the turbulent political scene. 1536 sounds no different, and hearing about Pickett’s past historical work makes me confident it would be an entertaining and thought provoking view. I would love to watch 1536, especially knowing how much I enjoyed watching and listening to Six.
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