The Tudors and the Stuarts enjoyed a colourful and controversial past - occasionally solicitous, but more often a battle of wills involving courtship and conquest. This new adaptation, full of vim and vinegar, follows the greatest Queens of the Elizabethan Age. Performed by Elmwood School’s thirteen-member female-ensemble, Fair Cruelty drew its title from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a play that mirrored life at court. Similarly, this show was a spirited, moving and, at times, absurd look at the lives of royalty’s most extraordinary women: a show that delighted historical-buffs and theatre-lovers.