MARGRETE, QUEEN OF THE NORTH

Wednesday 25 January

10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm

Director Charlotte Sieling

Drama

Denmark

Danish English subtitles

120 minutes

The year is 1402. Margrete has achieved what no man has managed before. She has gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union, which she single-handedly rules through her young, adopted son, Erik. The union is beset by enemies, however, and Margrete is therefore planning a marriage between Erik and an English princess. An alliance with England should secure the union’s status as an emerging European power but a breathtaking conspiracy is underway that can tear Margrete and all she believes in apart.

Margrete Queen of the North is a superbly mounted drama set in a variety of Scandinavian countries at the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century – David Stratton, The Australian

It’s a big, dark, roiling cauldron of politics and emotion, and satisfying as all that — even if a lot of it is speculation.  – Paul Byrnes, Sydney Morning Herald