"Plenty of glamorous backstabbing, diva dissing and sexual double-crossing...has every right to claim the name Dynasty for itself.
The wily Senenmut has an evil streak that rivals many a Shakespearean villain." Tribeca Trib "FIT FOR A Queen reveals the life and reign of Hatshepsut in a way never before explored, thus ensuring Hatshepsut\'s name is not lost to the ages." Huffington Post.
She\'s bundled contradictions, as the best-written characters always are: power-hungry but empathetic; hardened through experience but naive enough to be betrayed; often the smartest person in the room, so always surprised when she\'s outwitted." Harvard Magazine "If the premise sounds like a history lesson, this play delivers a hilarious, beautifully written tale of what it takes to be a woman in power and how absolute power does inevitably corrupt absolutely...the writing is both poetic and powerful and the comedy is intelligent and sharp. (Ancient days, huh?) A subversive speculation on the nature of power " Ben Brantley, The New York Times "Funny, both witty--Shamieh\'s sharp-tongued women lacerate one another and their shared opponents--and farcical FIT FOR A Queen may have attracted attention due to its election-season parallels...but it\'s Senenmut who is Shamieh\'s] favorite kind of antihero: the oppressed subject who refuses to play angel, the recipient of horrors who manages to deliver some horrors of her own.
She\'s a pharaoh, one Hatshepsut, who reigned over Egypt for 20 odd years in the 15th-century B C, and the distinction is important in a time when women rarely ruled, at least not officially.
She\'s more than a queen.
Scratch that.
A queen, I mean, and not just of the self-dramatizing type.
But the title character in Betty Shamieh\'s bouncy, bumpy comic melodrama is the real thing. "Plenty of glamorous backstabbing, diva dissing and sexual double-crossing...has every right to claim the name Dynasty for itself
