Overview

• The Royal Shakespeare Company shared the first rehearsal photos featuring Ncuti Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare.
• Liz Duffy Adams’ script stages a queer-coded rivalry and imagined co-authorship theory set against Elizabethan espionage under Daniel Evans’s direction.
• Olivier Award winner Joanna Scotcher leads set design with Neil Austin on lighting, George Dennis on sound, Andrzej Goulding on video and Ira Mandela Siobhan on movement.
• The production runs for 11 weeks through November 1 at Wyndham’s Theatre, with preview performances starting August 13.
• Presented with Playful Productions and producer Elizabeth Williams, the RSC has named Matt Pettifor and Justice Ritchie as understudies for Shakespeare and Marlowe.