The School of Night

About the show

Set in 1592–93, Peter Whelan’s play follows Christopher Marlowe and his circle as they flirt with heresy and republican ideas under the watch of England’s political and religious authorities. Marlowe befriends the actor Tom Stone, who reveals himself as Shakespeare; as spies arrest Thomas Kyd and Marlowe is accused of blasphemy, the group’s escape plan ends in Marlowe’s death at Deptford.