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Born With Teeth: queer imagining of Shakespeare and Marlowe tale is also a play about plays

Currently playing to enthusiastic reviews at London’s Wyndham Theatre, Born With Teeth imagines a historic moment in playwriting in which Liz Duffy Adams illuminates how history can be presented from a queer perspective, while revealing precisely how a play actually functions.

The Conversation

Born With Teeth at Wyndham’s Theatre review: seductively clever work from Ncuti Gatwa

4/5 Liz Duffy Adams blends intrigue and shifty eroticism with in-jokes and a discourse on creativity in this playful examination of Kit Marlowe and Shakespeare’s relationship

Evening Standard

Born With Teeth review – Ncuti Gatwa simmers in Elizabethan battle of the playwrights

Gatwa’s Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel’s William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams’ sizzling new chamber play

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The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him

Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

The Guardian - UK

First look at Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel in 'ferociously sexy' new play Born With Teeth

Liz Duffy Adams’ play imagines the relationship between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

Evening Standard

‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama

After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story

The Guardian - UK

‘A steamy wrestle’: Guardian article inspires play on Shakespeare and Marlowe collaboration

Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working together

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The real story behind Ncuti Gatwa’s ‘dark, sexy’ Shakespeare play: Were The Bard and Marlowe lovers or rivals?

As Born With Teeth brings a ‘ferociously sexy’ take on literature’s greatest mystery to the West End, we separate the tantalising facts from wild fiction

Evening Standard

Ncuti Gatwa to play Christopher Marlowe in West End play

Royal Shakespeare Company announces Gatwa has been cast as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

The Independent UK

Ncuti Gatwa to star in 'dark, sexy' West End play about Shakespeare and Marlowe

Born With Teeth will be hitting the West End this summer, featuring Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare in a “ferociously sexy” take on the relationship between the playwrights

Evening Standard

Ncuti Gatwa to star in play about rival playwrights Shakespeare and Marlowe

Born With Teeth follows Marlowe and Shakespeare as the pair collaborate in the backroom of a pub.

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