Marlowe Events

Forthcoming

Please do about any forthcoming Marlowe productions or Marlowe-related events anywhere in the world, and he would be happy to publicise the details on this page.

Dr Faustus - Glasgow [2025]

• Play: Doctor Faustus
• Dates: Thursday 26 June (preview) to Saturday 12 July 2025.
• Performance Times: Tuesday to Saturday evening at 20:00.
• Venue: Kibble Palace Glasshouse, Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0UE. [Map]
• Tickets: Priced £28 | £21 (Disabled,Student,Unemployed) | £15 (Equity,BECTU,SSP members) | £19 on Tuesdays available to book online.
• Summary: Bard in the Botanics presents Doctor Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe, adapted by associate director Jennifer Dick. "'Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer. Say I surrender up to him my soul.' Doctor Faustus wants more. He's celebrated and successful but it's not enough. He's been flirting with the occult and one night conjures up the fallen angel, Mephistopeles, the servant of Lucifer. Mephistopheles offers a bargain. Everything Faustus could ever want, for the period of twenty-four years. The price? His immortal soul. Faustus signs the deal and sets out on his adventures. Marlowe's epic drama, adapted for three actors, plays out in the intimate surroundings of the Kibble Palace Glasshouse. Jennifer Dick directs this new production of her mash-hit adaptation, which asks the ultimate question: What is the price of your soul?"
• Website Links: Bard in the Botanics presents Doctor Faustus at Kibble Palace Glasshouse in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens.

Dr Faustus - Leamington Spa [2025]

• Play: Doctor Faustus
• Dates: Wednesday 16 July to Saturday 26 July 2025.
• Performance Times: Tuesday to Saturday evening at 19:30; Matinee on Saturday 20 July 2025 at 17:30.
• Venue: The Loft Theatre, Victoria Colonnade, Leamington Spa CV31 3AA. [Map & Directions]
• Tickets: Priced £18 and £16 for concessions available online. Box Office ansaphone service on 01926 830 680.
• Summary: The Loft Theatre Company presents Doctor Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe, adapted and directed by David Fletcher, with David Bennett as Faustus and Peter Daly-Dickinson as Mephistopheles. "Christopher Marlowe's notorious tale of vanity, greed and damnation will be staged - with the creative team unconfined! – in a new adaptation by David Fletcher. Faustus is a brilliant but embittered academic, a solitary scholar who has exhausted the confines of human knowledge. Frustrated with the futility of religion, law and science he is desperate for a deeper understanding of the universe – and for the worldwide fame that he believes it will bring. Risking everything, he conjures the demon Mephistopheles and asks him to strike a deal with Lucifer, the Devil. The deal? Twenty four years of absolute knowledge and infinite power in exchange for his soul. Despite being tormented by doubt, Faustus agrees to the deal and signs in blood. But as he begins to revel in his new powers, the world around him starts to collapse and the clock inexorably counts down to the final moment of reckoning..."
• Website Links: The Loft Theatre Company presents Doctor Faustus at The Loft Theatre in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Born With Teeth - Wyndham's Theatre, London [2025]

• Play: Born With Teeth
• Date: Wednesday 13 August to Saturday 01 November 2025.
• Performance Times: Monday to Saturday evenings at 19:30; Matinees every Wednesday and Saturday at 14:30.
• Venue: Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0DA - nearest tube: Leicester Square (Northern Line & Piccadilly Line) [Map & Directions]
• Tickets: Priced from £25 will be available for purchase online from Monday 14 April 2025 (DMT+ members) and Wednesday 16 April 2025 (general sale).
• Reviews of Past US Productions - Houston TX 2022: Broadway World; Houston Press; Houston Chronicle. Minneapolis MN 2023: Peter Kirwan (Bardathon); Broadway World; Aisle Say; PhenoMNal Twin Cities; Play Off The Page; The Stages of MN. Berkeley CA 2023: Mercury News; Theatrius; SFgate. Richmond VA 2024: Peter Kirwan (Bardathon); RVA Mag; RVArt Review. Sarasota FL 2024: Broadway World.
• Summary: Born With Teeth at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End, written by Liz Duffy Adams and directed by Daniel Evans (Co-artistic Director at the RSC), with Ncuti Gatwa as Kit Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare. "In the backroom of a pub, writing sensations Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare are forced together in a creative union. Alone, with the table as their stage and battlefield, they sharpen their pens – and let their genius fly. Across three secret meetings, the rivals duel and flirt like their lives depend on it – and with spies everywhere, betrayal is so tempting. Marking its West End premiere this summer, Liz Duffy Adams' Born With Teeth is a thrilling imagining of the relationship between two literary icons at odds with their time. RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans directs Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who, Sex Education) and Edward Bluemel (Killing Eve, My Lady Jane) as the poets who square off in a game of wits, words, and powerplay."
• Website Links: Wyndham's Theatre presents Born With Teeth | Alley Chat Podcast with playwright Liz Duffy Adams | Liz Duffy Adams - Writer's Take.