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...Meanwhile, a smooth voiceover talks us through the plot so far: “Previously on Edward II . . . ” For this is a serialisation of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century tragedy, mischievously packaged to resemble...
...And there’s conspiracy aplenty in Nick Bagnall’s swift, compressed production of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II....
...Following Shakespeare and Webster, Christopher Marlowe is getting a little run out in this intimate theatre (his Edward II follows Faustus into the space) and director Paulette Randall makes fine use of...
...Best of the cast is Billy Howle as Prince Edward....
...The basis for Crimp’s libretto is Marlowe’s Edward II, also the subject of a new opera in Berlin last year....
...But is it based on history, on Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play, or should it be seen as an interpretation of Derek Jarman’s high-camp postmodern 1991 film?...
...Rambert Dance, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury The Rambert troupe is to be seen in Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre from Wednesday to Friday, with a mixed repertory that includes Christopher Bruce’s Rooster (pictured...
...He treats Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play as if it were written yesterday, the work of a young, audacious, unorthodox mind....
...His latest, The Black-Eyed Blonde, brings back to literary life Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe. Banville will be in conversation with the FT’s books editor Lorien Kite....
...“Death of an Alchemist” explores the life of Edward Kelley, the Elizabethan spirit medium, who died in Bohemia in about 1597, apparently as a result of a fall from a prison rampart. Did he jump?...
...And even more so in his voice: whether as Marlowe’s Edward II, Pirandello’s Henry IV or George Lucas’s Emperor of the Known Galaxy, those mellifluous yet abrasive tones convey knowledge, guile, control of...
...Julius characterises it as the culmination of the persecution of a people by a Jew-hating King Edward I....
...Edward the Second Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, New York Along with Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second is Christopher Marlowe’s most produced play....
...In the days before it became independent, I went to King Edward’s School, Birmingham, then a so-called direct grant school that took in a combination of state-funded and fee-paying children....
...Rupert Goold’s Headlong Theatre now follows a rare revival of Edward Bond’s Restoration with this revival of Goold’s 2004 Northampton production of his and Ben Power’s treatment of Christopher Marlowe’s...
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