Born With Teeth Review: Ncuti Gatwa Takes a Lightning Bolt to Tudor History

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Ncuti Gatwa on Playing a Hot Christopher Marlowe in the West End’s ‘Born With Teeth’

Gatwa is currently donning Marlowe’s rakish leather doublet and cunning grin in Liz Duffy Adams’s “Born With Teeth,” opposite Edward Bluemel as Marlowe’s imagined rival and—in the very hypothetical world of the play—lusty sparring partner, William Shakespeare.

Born With Teeth review: Ncuti Gatwa takes a lightning bolt to Tudor history

Shakespearean tradition gets an electrifying awakening in the West End's Born With Teeth, now showing for a limited run at Wyndham's Theatre.Starring Doctor Who's own Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel – best known for the Amazon Prime series My Lady Jane – this pseudo-Renaissance drama flips the lid on a much mythologised period of history to reveal something far darker lurking beneath.Liz Duffy's two-man show banishes the sanitised and idolised ve…

Edward Bleumel and Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa need to get a room in Born With Tee...

Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bleumel ferociously fight and flirt as Marlowe and Shakespeare in the European premiere of Born With Teeth.