On taking my seat in the Olivier for Edward II, I feared the worst. Two large screens, an exposed Brechtian set, a lone keyboard player. This didn’t bode well. But, the frankly risible pianist aside, ...
In 1593, Christopher Marlowe penned "Edward II," based on the life of Britain's only openly gay monarch. In 1991, legendary artist and director, Derek Jarman (Wittgenstein, Caravaggio) radically ...
"I'll bandy with the barons and the earls, and either die or live with Gaveston." There has been much conjecture over the centuries as to the true nature of Edward II’s relationship with Piers ...
Steven Waddington plays the title character in “Edward II,” director Derek Jarman’s startling and singular radicalization of Christopher Marlowe. Just moments into Edward II (1991), his startling and ...
Tamara Harvey took no heed and Edward II sees her RSC compadre, Daniel Evans (pictured below, kneeling centre), back on stage after 14 years and in the title role to boot. In Daniel Raggett’s stripped ...
Twitter and computer games are go-to pastimes in the world of “E2,” Bob Bartlett’s contemporary reimagining of Christopher Marlowe’s “Edward II,” but the king and his court have kept up their fencing ...
Edward, much to the despair of his wife and contempt of his barons, is very fond of both. King Edward comes to the throne, and immediately recalls his banished lover, Pierce Gaveston- an order that ...
Not that Scartazzini is afraid to put his audience through the mill in his Swiss-written, German-staged telling of an English story premiered in 2017. Over the course of Edward II’s Hamlet-like ...
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