An aging ruler, an oppressive police state, a restless, polarized people seething with paranoia: it’s a dangerous time for poets. Two of them—the great Kit Marlowe and up-and-comer Will Shakespeare—meet in the back room of a pub to collaborate on a history play cycle, navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like young men with everything to lose. One of them may well be the death of the other.

"It is a profile of two of the foundational artists of the English-speaking theater . . . a window into the court intrigue of Elizabethan England . . . a brilliantly scripted duel between two different approaches to living life as an artist. It is also a romance, played with considerable heat . . . very funny, intriguing and exhilarating. - Talkin' Broadway