Fledgling Theatre Company, under the Artistic Direction of Matthew Dalton Lynch has announced dates for the New York Premiere of Ted Bacino and Rufus Cadigan's THE SHAKESPEARE CONSPIRACY, a new play (based on Mr. Bacino's book of the same title) that explores the greatest literary deception of all time. The production is directed by Jeremy Karafin and will run April 20th - May 5th in the Studio Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street). The official opening will be on Tuesday, April 27 at 7:30PM. It will run as part of the first annual BATTLE OF THE BARDS: THE Christopher Marlowe FESTIVAL, a new six week festival that features two original plays about William Shakespeare & Christopher Marlowe and chronicles the life that Marlowe would have lived as a fugitive, hiding not only his gay sexuality, but also his identity as the actual author of Shakespeare's works.
Murder, Mayhemand manhunts in the underbelly of gay London theater as the Black Plague scourges the country in this telling of the conspiracy surrounding the true authorship of the works of the bard. THE SHAKESPEARE CONSPIRACY is based on the real people of Christopher Marlowe's life and supposed murder. Two recent discoveries, one in England and one in America, have finally determined the real author of the works of Shakespeare. Both discoveries coincided with the 400th anniversary of the death of the actor from Stratford who for centuries has been credited with writing the plays and poems. These announcements have fanned the flames of the daily stories resurrecting the usual authorship candidates - Marlowe, Bacon, the Earl of Oxford and even the actor Shakespeare himself. In 2016, the "New Oxford Complete Works of Shakespeare" (one of the most authoritative scholarly resources concerning Shakespeare's writings) listed Christopher Marlow as the co-author of some of the plays, including "Henry VI, (Parts One, Two and Three.") An esteemed team of 23 scholars from five countries completed the research on this. According to the London Guardian, these three plays are among the 17 or more that are now believed to be written by someone other than Shakespeare. The New York Times wrote "This is the first time another author has been listed on the title page of any of Shakespeare's works."Videos