Mary of Scotland was a 1933 Broadway three-act play written in blank verse by Maxwell Anderson, produced by the Theatre Guild, directed by Theresa Helburn and with scenic and costume design by Robert Edmond Jones. It ran for 248 performances from November 27, 1933 to July 1934 at the Alvin Theatre. Anderson's son Quentin Anderson played a warder. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1933-1934.
It was adapted into a 1936 film Mary of Scotland mostly directed by John Ford and starring Fredric March and Katharine Hepburn.
A rehearsal for the play provided the setting for a 1976 sketch of "Mama's Family" on The Carol Burnett Show that featured Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Madeline Kahn.
Cast
Helen Hayes as Mary Stuart
Helen Menken as Elizabeth Tudor
Philip Merivale as James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Edgar Barrier as Lord Douglas
Ernest Cossart as Lord Throgmorton
George Coulouris as Lord Burghley and as Lord Erskine
Moroni Olsen as John Knox
Stanley Ridges as Lord Morton
Charles Dalton as Lord Huntley
Philip Foster as Lord Gordon
Wilton Graff as James Stuart Earl of Moray
Cecil Holm as Jamie a guard
William Jackson as Monk a guard
Anthony Kemble Cooper as Lord Darnley
Ernest Lawford as Maitland of Lethington
Philip Leigh as David Rizzio
Quentin Anderson as a warder
Maurice F. Manson as a page and as Graeme a sergeant
Jock McGraw as Tammas
Mary Michael as Mary Beaton
Cynthia Rogers as Mary Fleming
Helen Shea as Mary Seton
Deane Willoughby as Mary Livingston
Edward Trevor as Chatelard
Leonard Willey as Duc de Chatelherault and as Lord Ruthven