The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) published the first rehearsal images of “Born With Teeth”, offering a glimpse of Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare before the premiere of West End production next month.
The images show that Gatwa (“Doctor Who”, “Sex Education”) and Bluemel (“Killing Eve”, “My Lady Jane”) in the character of the play by Liz Duffy Adams, who imagines the relationship between the two literary giants Elisabethains. The RSC production, presented with Playful Productions and Elizabeth Williams, will take place for 11 weeks at the Wyndham’s Theater in London.
NCUTI GATWA, Edward Bluemel – Repetition “born with teeth”
Johan Persson
The co -artistic director of the RSC, Daniel Evans, double winner of the Olivier Prize, directs the drama which explores the dynamics between Marlowe – the “Rockstar of the Elizabethain theater” and “Scandalous Spy for the Crown” – and Shakespeare, spent as a “work actor” and “the young drama promise
Based on the theory that the two playwrights may have collaborated on Henry VI’s history pieces, Adams’ script plunges into their relationship during what production describes as “an extraordinarily dangerous moment for artists”.
NCUTI GATWA, Edward Bluemel – Repetition “born with teeth”
Johan Persson
With preview performances starting on August 13, with performance until November 1, production of production is the design of the winner of the Olivier Joanna Scotcher and lighting design by the Tony prize winner and Olivier Neil Austin. George Dennis provides a sound design, Andrzej Goulding manages the video design and Ira Mandela Siobhan is a motion director.
Producer Elizabeth Williams said: “It is rare for my many years as a producer of West End and Broadway to read a room like Liz Duffy Adams born with teeth that from the first sentence, chills. Our playwright seems to have channeled directly from the conception of the 1590s of this story of the intersection of the contemporary life of these two great poets, of the spiritual.
NCUTI GATWA, Edward Bluemel – Repetition “born with teeth”
Johan Persson
Matt Pettifor and Judge Ritchie are used respectively in Shakespeare and Marlowe.
