After a quiet start to his time as half the Artistic Director of the RSC Daniel Evans is having a busier second year, following up
his role as a Christopher Marlowe lead by directing a play about the man himself. Liz Duffy Adams'
Born With Teeth takes as its premise an academic theory that Marlowe might have contributed to Shakespeare's early
Henry VI plays, as well as from the persistent rumours that he was murdered for his work as a spy. In a private back room in a pub we see the two playwrights - aware of each other but not yet acquainted - meet for the first time after being asked to complete an unfinished draft of the play that is now known as Part I. Kit Marlowe (Ncuti Gatwa) is the established, bad-boy superstar of Elizabethan theatre, and plays up to this image to the somewhat star-struck Will Shakespeare (Edward Bluemel,) dominating the conversation and making sure he reserves all the best scenes from the outline for himself.
