Speaking Like Magpies

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Play Opened 15 February 2006, Closed 25 February 2006

Trafalgar Studios 1 Whitehall, London

But I can hear them speaking like magpies, And they mean to thieve his life, The Lord's anointed servant, They mean to kill God.

Speaking Like Magpies is a new play by Frank McGuinness that deals with the background to the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Speaking Like Magpies was specially commissioned by The Royal Shakespeare Company for the Swan Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon where it was performed from September to November 2005.