Preview :: A Play in the Time of the Perilous Plague
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- “Thomas Kyd in the Court of King James” -
- A New Play by Christopher Marlowe -
A most lamentable comedy revealing how King James I sent England’s most vile Puritans to colonise the “New World” in 1603, with two books he wrote :: “Daemonologie” or “How to Find and Burn Witches for Fun and Profit” and “The Bible”...
Prologue :: Sycorax, the macabre witch of Lochlaven Island Wood ::
A man of this time and of these hours,
No longer strolls amongst stalking flowers.
And yet still, these children, nestled near,
With electric eyes and a digitized ear,
Raise raging waves against seas of dark reason,
Summoning a day, a man for all seasons...
On this day two friends were banished for treason.
Destined for Padua on a boat in fog.
They came ashore in Scotland, thinking it Prague.
And how these gay lovers do echo from this beach,
This untold tale no teacher will teach.
Our actors will show how Christopher Marlowe,
Did come to be known by more commercial names.
Disguising both himself and his gay friend,
Thomas Kyd, in the Court of King James.