Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel to star in steamy new production in London’s West End

Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel star in Born With Teeth (Image: Provided)

Actors Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel are set to bring sparks, steel and possibly a snog or two to the West End this summer in Born With Teeth, a sizzling new play imagining secret meetings between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.

The plot? It’s winter 1591. England’s drowning in paranoia, spies are lurking in every tavern, and being a writer could get you killed or, at the very least, kissed.

Written by Liz Duffy Adams, Born With Teeth arrives at Wyndham’s Theatre from 13 August for a strictly limited 11-week season. Gatwa (Doctor Who, Sex Education and former Attitude cover boy) stars as the radical and reckless Marlowe, opposite Bluemel (Killing Eve, My Lady Jane) as an ambitious

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