'I don't buy it' … Ava Pickett on her play about Anne Boleyn's treason and incest
Was the second wife of Henry VIII really guilty of the crimes she was beheaded for? Pickett's award-winning new play takes a sideways look at her downfall " by imagining its impact on everyday women Like many British schoolchildren, Ava Pickett chanted the "Divorced, beheaded, died" rhyme about Henry VIII's six wives " and it has stayed in her head ever since. So much so that her play 1536 pivots around the last da…