Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II
Renaissance tragedy meets Mean Girls meets 80s slasher in Carlos Pons Guerra’s queer dance adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II.
Telling the true story of the king of England who fell in love with his male court favourite, DeNada Dance Theatre transports Marlowe’s narrative to the only place scarier than the medieval court of England: high school.
Hormone-fuelled, spectacularly camp and aggressively poignant, Edward II explores the struggle and endurance of queer people across history. The King of the class, the boy he loves, and the war that tears the playground apart: a high school fever dream that bleeds and sweats with the angst and joys of forbidden passion.
Danced, lesson to lesson, by a top class of international dancers; with DeNada’s signature high-octane theatricality and explosive physicality. Set to an original score that glitches from 90s video arcade to medieval electronics by Luis Miguel Cobo, with time-warping costume designs by April Dalton, Edward II holds up a mirror to the haunting nostalgia of the playground we all remember.
Whether the prom queen, the jock, the outcast, the final girl, or the nerd: this visceral production speaks to anyone who’s faced the brutal battlefield of adolescence.
Class is in session. Will you survive the playground?
Choreographed and directed by Carlos Pons Guerra
Inspired by Christopher Marlowe's 1592 Edward II
Reviews
“Dazzling imagery…superlatively danced” - Financial Times
“Dynamite dancing”- The Guardian
