Zack Polanski

Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?
Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T16:07:26+00:001 September 2017|Tags: Angels in America, Christopher Marlowe, classics, Edward II, Elizabethan drama, Gay plays, gay theatre, Lazarus Theatre, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Mark Woolgar, queer theatre, Ricky Dukes, Terri Paddock events, Tristan Bates Theatre, Zack Polanski|

The plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill's Late Company, and the one I hosted last night, to Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century classic Edward II.

Q&A photos and podcast: A return to Brechtian politics via The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Q&A photos and podcast: A return to Brechtian politics via The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Q&A photos and podcast: A return to Brechtian politics via The Caucasian Chalk Circle

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T18:45:24+00:0031 March 2017|Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Brexit, Donald Trump, EU Referendum, Greenwich Theatre, Ricky Dukes, Sara Reimers, Stephen Unwin, Terri Paddock events, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Trumpism, Zack Polanski|

What would Bertolt Brecht have made of Donald Trump? Brecht's "epic theatre" was sparked by the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. Many pundits have likened the political period we've now entered with that dark decade of the twentieth century.