Gender-fluid Mary, Queen of Scots ballet to debut at Edinburgh festival 2025

International festival’s director says Scottish Ballet production is part of lineup that will challenge perspectives

A new gender- and age-fluid ballet tracing the life of Mary, Queen of Scots is to take centre stage at next year’s Edinburgh international festival.

The world premiere production by Scottish Ballet, which focuses on Mary through the eyes of her half-sister Queen Elizabeth I, will include male and female dancers taking on multiple “fluid and intergenerational” roles.

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