“If Christopher Marlowe was alive today, he would paint the town red. What a bad bit!” Howls ncuti gatwa.
He spoke through a telephone from London, describing Elizabethan playwrights and innocents, known for his numerous works Doctor Faust As for his liberals. (He is believed to have been stabbed to death in a bar battle at 29, facing accusation of “hereth”).)
Gatwa, 32-year-old Rwanda-Scott Crew actor Sex Education and Dr. Who Fame, currently wearing Marlow’s rakish leather Doublet and the crafty West End two Born with teeth, Against Edward Bluemel as Marlowe’s imagined rival, collaborator, and in the script’s hypothetical world, against William Shakespeare.
“Their competition between them and their admiration and how it affects the arts is,” Gatewa said.
Written by Liz Duffy Adams and produced by Royal Shakespeare Company, the play centers on a series of lively (fictional) conferences between Marlowe and Shakespeare. Henry VI History ranged from 1591 to 1593. Although there is no historical evidence that they write together (even acquaintances), both work simultaneously in the cauldron of dangerous political cauldrons in the Elizabeth era in London.
“England has gone from Catholics to Protestant to Catholics to Protestant rule, and during the Catholic rule, Protestants were hunted; in Protestant rule, among Catholics. Everyone feared each other and frightened themselves,” said Gatwa in the historical context of the work. In this story, Christopher “Kit” Marlowe is the Protestant representative of Queen Elizabeth I, who is paired with Shakespeare, who is suspected of having a church tendency.
Add to the layer of sexual tension between the two men, a queer person who feels the words Gatwa and Marlowe live.
“Ed and I, we’re very keen to make it as hot as possible,” he said. Gatwa’s research on the work of Elizabethan historians will be working in preparation, “discovering Marlowe’s unquestionably strange strangeness and Shakespeare. He likens their Tête-à-tête to a tête-à-tête between a leopard and a domestic cat (Shakespeare), whose tight companionship rarely slacked off work on the show’s craze (90 minutes) runtime, which is a honor to director Daniel Evans.
