{"id":398584,"date":"2025-09-05T00:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398584\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:19:12","slug":"ncuti-gatwa-shakespeare-was-unapologetically-queer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398584\/","title":{"rendered":"Ncuti Gatwa: Shakespeare was &#8216;unapologetically queer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was much swooning at The Wyndham\u2019s Theatre this week for the opening night of  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/theatre\/born-with-teeth-wyndhams-theatre-review-ncuti-gatwa-b1245727.html\" title=\"Born With Teeth at Wyndham\u2019s Theatre review: seductively clever work from Ncuti Gatwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Born With Teeth <\/a>. The play reimagines an erotically charged relationship between rival playwrights Christopher Marlowe, played by Ncuti Gatwa, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/shakespeare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shakespeare<\/a> (Edward Bluemel).  In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/vogue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vogue<\/a>, Gatwa said that he and Bluemel wanted to make the play \u201cas hot as possible\u201d. He described Marlowe as \u201ca bad bitch\u201d who would have \u201cpainted the town red\u201d if he were alive today, adding that Marlowe and Shakespeare were \u201cunapologetically queer\u201d.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was much swooning at The Wyndham\u2019s Theatre this week for the opening night of Born With Teeth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,110991,393,4884,257,22252,100656,16,15,86612],"class_list":{"0":"post-398584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-daniel-kaluuya","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-shakespeare","14":"tag-soho-house","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-vogue"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148827200495864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}