One of the subjects I studied at university is history, and one thing you learn as you study is that history is essentially a series of narratives based on truth. Yes, of course, there are historical records of events, but more often than not, what we have is a record of who was there, what happened, and how it happened; very rarely are we ever given the why. We speculate on the why, we make assumptions, some more founded than others. But often in service to the why, people are cast in the narrative of history as either heroes or villains, often to the detriment of the complex human person. This is at the heart of the Henry Lawson Theatre's play Mary Stuart, duality.