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SHAKESPEARE IN LUST
The Independent
|September 04, 2025
Ncuti Gatwa's Christopher Marlowe flirts wildly with Edward Bluemel's bard in ‘Born With Teeth’, but it’s a shame this Tudor fan fiction didn’t dig deeper
★★★☆☆
Wyndham's Theatre, London
“Poets get around,” boasts Elizabethan literary titan Christopher Marlowe in this sharp, saucy period drama by US playwright Liz Duffy Adams. And with Ncuti Gatwa in the role, you can well believe it. The Doctor Who star seems to sweat both charisma and sex in his tight black leather doublet, showing off his “throbbing quill”, and boasting of his ability to flit from dark taverns to London’s most exclusive eyries of power. This peacocking is designed to intimidate his shyer rival, a yet-to-be-famous Shakespeare (a diffident Edward Bluemel). But rivalry is next to love. And there’s more than a hint of romantic tension to this exercise in Tudor fan fiction.
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