Though King Edward II’s sexuality and the history surrounding his death are disputed by historians, Nick Bagnall takes a definitive stance in Marlowe’s history play.
REVIEW ROUND-UP – Edward II at Shakespeare’s Globe
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Nick Bagnall’s production of Edward II at Shakespeare’s Globe.
‘Sublimely atmospheric opera’: LESSONS IN LOVE & VIOLENCE – Royal Opera House
Lessons in Love & Violence is a deliciously cool, intellectually stimulating and tremendously suggestive reading of a brilliant piece about the politics of power, the confusion of desire and the horror of violence. If love can make us human, so can murder.
NEWS: Lazarus Theatre open year-long Greenwich residency with Edward II rerun
Lazarus Theatre, the pioneering theatre company that specialises in reimagining, slimmed-down classics, has secured a year-long residency at south London’s Greenwich Theatre.
Edward II Q&A podcast: What do Christopher Marlowe & Jordan Tannahill have in common?
The plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s Late Company at Trafalgar Studios, and the one I hosted last night, to Christopher Marlowe‘s 16th-century classic Edward II.
Beyond #EdFringe: London can compete for festival city title in August too
This year, perhaps more than ever before, it seems to me that London theatre in August is out to out-Edinburgh Edinburgh, even in terms of laying claim to being the city of festivals.
EDWARD II – St Bartholomew the Great
Now I’m no republican, but the problem with a hereditary monarchy is that you never really know who you will get ruling you. They could be good or evil, sensible or mad, a statesman/woman or just a state, it’s all a bit of a lottery. This then is the central theme to Christopher Marlowe’s play “Edward II” or to give it its full title “The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer.”