Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel to star in queer-coded Shakespeare-inspired play Born With Teeth

Edward Bluemel and Ncuti Gatwa (Image: Felicity McCabe/RSC)

Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is set to star opposite Killing Eve actor Edward Bluemel in a new play by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Gatwa will play the acclaimed poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe, whilst Bluemel will be playing Shakespeare himself. The play, entitled Born With Teeth, is said to explore the writers’ “barely-suppressed sexual and creative chemistry”.

The actors have both previously appeared in the hit Netflix show Sex Education.

Written by Liz Duffy Adams, Born With Teeth is set at the height of both writers’ power and fame, when they find themselves “forced together to collaborate on a new play, against a backdrop of espionage, religious persecution and paranoia,” according to the play’s official description.

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