Tickets have gone on sale today for the UK premiere of Born With Teeth, starring Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel.
Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sex Education) and Edward Bluemel (Killing Eve, Sex Education, My Lady Jane) star in razor-sharp, darkly comic new play Born With Teeth.
What happens when the two greatest writers of the Elizabethan age – Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare – are forced to share a room and a deadline?
Find out in this biting, high-stakes clash of egos and ambition, playing in the West End for a strictly limited season.
Born With Teeth tickets now on sale
Wyndham’s Theatre London, 13 August – 1 November 2025
Liz Duffy Adams’ dark comedy is coming to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre in London, playing from 13 August to 1 November 2025.
Born With Teeth is produced by the RSC and Playful Productions, and stars Ncuti Gatwa as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare.
The two-hander imagines an electrifying fictional encounter between Shakespeare and Marlowe, set in 1591 in the backroom of a London pub.
It is a dangerous time for artists: the country is full of conspiracy and paranoia. When writing sensations Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare are forced together in a creative union, with the table as their stage and battlefield, they sharpen their pens – and let their genius fly. Across three secret meetings, the rivals duel and flirt like their lives depend on it – and with spies everywhere, betrayal is so tempting.
Directed by Daniel Evans (Quiz), the creative team also includes design by Joanna Scotcher, lighting design by Neil Austin, and casting by Charlotte Sutton, with further creatives to be announced.
Born With Teeth is running at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London from 13 August to 1 November 2025.
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