Past Marlowe Productions

Kit Marlowe

Plays About Marlowe

This is an archive of past productions of plays about Christopher Marlowe or related subjects of interest from 2008 onwards that have all finished. The details and review links may still be of interest.

Kit Marlowe play reading at the Red Bull Theatre, New York - 2023

Kit Marlowe in New York [2023]

  • Play: Kit Marlowe - a play reading
  • Date: Monday 03 April 2023 at 19:30.
  • Venue: Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11217 [Map & Directions]
  • Tickets: Priced $50 (plus $5 fee) available online or from the Box Office (212.343.7394).
  • Summary: The Red Bull Theater Company presents a reading of Kit Marlowe written by David Grimm and directed by Emma Rose Went. "Set in the seedy underworld of Elizabethan England, the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Christopher Marlowe – playwright, poet, spy, and sexual outlaw – charts the ambitions of youth in a cold and unforgiving world. Performed by an all women and non-binary company, director Emma Rosa Went seeks to reinvigorate the play's radical and provocative landscape, by giving a new generation of queer artists access to its explosive and urgent questions about art, love, depravity, redemption, and the cost of genius."
  • Website Links: Red Bull Theater Company presents a reading of Kit Marlowe at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in New York. The play originally premiered at The Public Theatre in 2000.
Born With Teeth at the VENUE - 2023

Born With Teeth [2023]

The Marlowe Papers - The Play at The Other Place, Brighton - 2016

The Marlowe Papers, Brighton [2016]

  • Play: The Marlowe Papers
  • Performance Times: Sunday 15 May; Sunday 22 May to Wednesday 25 May; and Saturday 04 June 2016 at 20:30.
  • Venue: Studio 2 at The Warren, St Peter's Church, York Place, Brighton BN1 4GU. [Map]
  • Tickets: Priced £15 | £13.50 Concessions | £12 Students | £7.50 Carer/Support Worker, available online or from the Other Place Box Office (01273-987516).
  • Reviews: Voice Magazine; BroadwayBaby; FringeReview.
  • Summary: After a highly acclaimed opening run in January, The Marlowe Papers returns at The Other Place as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival. A one-man play directed by Nicola Haydn, written by Ros Barber and Nicola Haydn, adapted from Ros Barber's prize-winning verse novel, and with Jamie Martin as Kit Marlowe et al. "You're the author of the greatest plays of all time. But nobody knows. And if it gets out, you're dead. It's 1593, and Kit Marlowe, the most successful playwright in Elizabethan England, is stabbed through the eye at the age of 29. Except he isn't. Because Marlowe is also a secret agent. His secret service colleagues have faked his death because protecting the Queen from Catholic assassination plots has led to his arrest for atheism, a capital crime. Join Kit on his journey into exile and anonymity as he recounts the story of beer-drinking, duels and spying that led to his losing lovers, friends and his very identity... and wrestles with the problem that all his new work is being credited to one William Shakespeare."
  • Website Links: The OtherPlace presents The Marlowe Papers - The Play, adapted from the prize-winning verse novel The Marlowe Papers written by Ros Barber | Video Trailer | Music by James Fiddes Smith | Interview with director Nicola Hadyn in The Argus | Interview with author Ros Barber in Bibliofreak.
The Dead Shepherd at The White Bear Theatre, Kennington, London - 2015

The Dead Shepherd, London [2015]

  • Play: The Dead Shepherd
  • Dates: Tuesday 10 March to Saturday 28 March 2015.
  • Performance Times: Tuesday to Saturday evenings at 7.30pm; Sunday matinee at 4pm.
  • Venue: The White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, Kennington, London, SE11 4DJ [Map]. Nearest Tube: Kennington (Northern Line).
  • Tickets: Priced £14 | £10 concessions, available onlineor from the Box Office (0844 8700 887).
  • Reviews: LondonTheatre1; Theatre Bubble; Everything Theatre.
  • Summary: The White Bear presents The Dead Shepherd written by Robert Pope and Ian Dixon-Potter, directed by Linda Miller, with Ben Scarles as Kit Marlowe. "1615: A reclusive former playwright, mysteriously retired at the height of his powers, recounts a harrowing tale to the daughter of his estranged patron. He recalls how he began his career in the shadow of Christopher Marlowe, poet, heretic, sodomite, spy and the greatest playwright of the age. 1590: Young Will Shakespeare, newly arrived in London, falls in with Marlowe and is introduced to The School of Night, a secret society whose subversive gatherings come to the attention of the most powerful man in England, Her Majesty's Secretary of State, Sir Robert Cecil. Will is plunged into a sinister world of lies, conspiracy, betrayal, torture and revenge, culminating in Cecil's decree to have Marlowe's seditious mouth silenced for ever. 1593: As twilight falls across the Deptford Strand a scream rings out from a rooming house on the filthy dockside. Marlowe is dead, taking with him the dark secrets of Elizabeth's court to an unmarked grave."
  • Website Links: The White Bear Theatre presents the The Dead Shepherd. Writers' SoundCloud PodCast.
Shakespeare in Love, Noel Coward Theatre, London - 2014

Shakespeare in Love, London [2014]