Theatre fans rejoice, as the Royal Shakespeare Company is delighting us with a special production of the historic gay story Edward II running this spring. The play tells the often overlooked tale of ...
On taking my seat in the Olivier for Edward II, I feared the worst. Two large screens, an exposed Brechtian set, a lone keyboard player. This didn’t bode well. But, the frankly risible pianist aside, ...
Directed by Daniel Raggett, Marlowe’s tender, yet violent play about King Edward II and the man he loves features Daniel Evans - the RSC’s Co-Artistic Director and double Olivier Award-winner - in the ...
Steven Waddington plays the title character in “Edward II,” director Derek Jarman’s startling and singular radicalization of Christopher Marlowe. Just moments into Edward II (1991), his startling and ...
King Edward II rejects his cold wife Queen Isabella and takes a male lover, the commoner Piers Gaveston upon whom he betows gifts and power. The king's behaviour enrages the sober, business-suited ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Directed by Daniel Raggett, Marlowe’s tender, yet violent play about King Edward ...
Derek Jarman’s “Edward II” inspires intense admiration — for Kenneth Branagh’s “Henry V.” Jarman, a former painter and scene designer best known for his psychological reinterpretion of art history in ...
The entertainment begins in a jazz club, created by designer Ben Stones and based on the Mars Club in Paris, outside the suspended lunar module that is the Royal Exchange Theatre. We are invited (not ...
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With its frank discussion of homosexual love, regicide and rebellion, Christopher Marlowe’s cruel, compelling historical drama has always been radical. Opening at a time when regressive politics and ...
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