
RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans directs Ncuti Gatwa (BBC’s 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 power play.

Wyndham's Theatre
RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans directs Ncuti Gatwa (BBC’s 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 power play.

Winter 1591.
It is a dangerous time for artists: the country is full of conspiracy and paranoia.
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.
In these dangerous times, who will burn brightest - and who will burn out?
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