The English Channel
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 21, 2008
Closed Oct 5, 2008
Opened Sep 21, 2008
Closed Oct 5, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The murky relationship between great writers and their proclivity to "borrow" ideas and material is examined in this comedy tracing Shakespeare's relationship with The Earl of Southampton, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Christopher Marlowe during the turbulent months before Marlowe's death.
Abingdon Theatre Company will host a panel discussion with Rocco Landesman,
Oskar Eustis, Diane Paulus and Robert Brustein on Sunday, October 5, 2008
following its performance of The English Channel.
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Many prominent scholars and historians have postulated that William Shakespeare did not write his own plays, speculating that their true author was everyone from his lauded contemporary Christopher Marlowe to Queen Elizabeth I. Robert Brustein's The English Channel, making its New York premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, plays with this idea in often delightful fashion.
Set in 1593, the year the Black Plague shut down the theaters, the action revolves around Will (Stafford Clark-Price), his friend Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (Sean Dugan), his patron Henry "Hal" Wriothesley, the Earl of Southhampton (Brian Robert Burns), and his lover Emilia Lanier (Lori Gardner), who several scho[...]