Musical Six retells stories of Henry VIII's wives in pop-concert style

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived - this is how most people remember the six wives of 16th-century King of England Henry VIII.

- Charmaine Lim

Reclaiming their voices is the hit British musical Six, a pop concert-style show in which the Tudor queens take back their identities and rewrite their stories to be something more than the women who suffered at the hands of their husband.

Six co-creator Toby Marlow, 30, says in an e-mail interview: "When we started thinking about Six, we knew we wanted it to be something different... a platform for female and non-binary voices to be heard. We thought it would be amazing if these women - who are often only remembered 'just' as Henry VIII's wives - could finally tell their own stories."

He and co-creator Lucy Moss, 30, wrote the music, lyrics and script while in their final year at Cambridge University in England in 2016.

Marlow had been approached to create a new musical to be presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, and he partnered Moss to work on the project together.

Six, which has toured Britain and North America and has also been performed in South Korea, Australia and Canada, will be staged in Singapore for the first time at Marina Bay Sands' Sands Theatre from Nov 14 to Dec 1.