Tonight at 7:00 PM is Theatre Pro Rata‘s second free play reading.  Last week, we read the absurd Kitty Kitty Kitty;  this time, we’re reading Mary Stuart.  And as before, you get free homebrew beer by Scott Strand!  Here’s the info:

Schiller’s Mary Stuart by David Harrower
October 14, 2009, 7:00 P.M.
at The Gremlin Theatre

One of European theatre’s major plays, Friedrich von Schiller’s masterpiece hinges on a brilliantly imagined meeting between Mary, Queen of Scots – focus of simmering Catholic dissent and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England, who has imprisoned her. Isolated by their duplicitous male courtiers, the women collide headlong, each wrestling with the rank, ambition and destiny their births have bestowed, against a thrilling background of intrigue, plot and counter-plot.

Featuring: Amber Bjork, Andy Chambers, Matthew Glover, Grant Henderson, Daniel Joeck, Ben Layne, Carin Leonard-Gorrill, Michael Postle, Ariana Prusak, Keith Prusak & Clarence Wethern

In related news:

This will be the closing weekend of Theatre Pro Rata’s current play, José Rivera’s Marisol.  It’s gotten great reviews from The Star Tribune, City Pages, and TC Daily Planet, and it deserves a nice, big audience.  There’s some impressive work, including some really stunning design. GO SEE IT!