Emilia Lanier and William Shakespeare (Haley E.R. Cooper and J. Cameron Cooper) Photo

From: BWW Reviews: MURDERING MARLOWE - Strong Cast and Crew Slayed By Clunky Script

The Country Playhouse is presenting Charles Marowitz's MURDERING MARLOWE in their Black Box Theatre. With a healthy dose of elevated Elizabethan language and speculative fiction, the play tells the story of jealousy run awry. William Shakespeare, a fledgling artist, takes advantage of the government's disgust at Christopher Marlowe's sexual tastes and written blasphemies, and seeks to overthrow the successful playwright. He longs to claim Marlowe's spot as his own and this eventually leads to the murder of Christopher Marlowe in a pub in Deptford, England.