Ncuti Gatwa doesn’t just share a regeneration with David Tennant.
The current star of Doctor Who is the first since Tennant to display such a clear desire to get back on stage and make use of his enhanced profile to bag bigger roles. Last year he anchored the National Theatre’s hyperreal, warmly-reviewed The Importance of Being Earnest.
And this summer he’ll follow in the footsteps of longterm RSC associate Tennant and star in the company’s new West End drama.
Born with Teeth is a new play by US writer Liz Duffy Edwards that concerns the relationship between Gatwa’s Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel’s William Shakespeare. Set in 1591, the two-hander play sees the two legendary playwrights and pals flirt, fight and collaborate on Henry VI in paranoid late Elizabethan London.
An unknown American playwright coming in and writing a ‘sexy’ play about two of our greatest writers does have the slight air of fanfic to it, but the steadying hand of the RSC and its co-director Daniel Evans (who will direct here) suggests we’re on pretty safe ground.
After gamely joining in with the ensemble fun for Earnest, this two-hander is a real opportunity for Gatwa to give a proper star turn. And the same can be said for Killing Eve man Bluemel, who dabbled in stage work earlier in his career but hasn’t been back since.
We don’t have a lot of rune reading for Who watchers here, but it is worth pointing out that it’s relatively unusual for a big West End show to start its run in the middle of August, which could be indicative of needing to fit around a shooting schedule, though the finishing date of November 1 isn’t particularly wild. All will doubtless be revealed in good time(y wimey)
Born With Teeth is at Wyndham’s Theatre, Aug 13-Nov 1. Tickets go on general sale April 16.
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