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About the Show

Edward II meets Gertrude Stein, Harvey Milk and Quentin Crisp in Tom Stuart's metatheatrical play.

Tom Stuart's new work was written following his experience playing Edward II at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Edward II encounters prominent LGBTQ figures from across history: Gertrude Stein, Harvey Milk and Quentin Crisp. The play explores queer politics and what it means to be a gay man in the modern day.

Critic Reviews (6)

It isn't quite as clever and it doesn't progress as far in its arguments, but it is smart, enjoyable and intensely heart-felt.
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A fantastical companion piece to Marlowe’s Edward II mischievously mixes gay politics and theatricality, but is lacking in action.
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Tom Stuart’s sweepingly hallucinogenic companion piece to Marlowe’s Edward II is a delightfully risky venture – a postmodern caper through shifting attitudes to homosexuality.
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It can smack a wee bit of self-satisfied student drama, but if the intertextual cleverness is laid on with a trowel, it also delivers silliness in spades.
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You leave feeling that, for all its derivative trappings, the show has bust forth a fresh new voice.
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Though the work starts off a little slowly, straining for laughs, it quickly develops into a compelling study of inherited shame and self-hatred, the legacy of a 1980s childhood beset by bullying and homophobia.
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