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Article: Pumpkin offers a bare-bones `Edward II'.(VARIETY)(Review) (theater review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- December 17, 1996
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Peter Peter Pumpkin Theatre, the most promising local troupe to debut in 1996, has taken on a monumental task in trying to pump life and meaning into Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II."
The play, which fills in a few gaps in the historical background surrounding Mel Gibson's Academy Award-winning movie "Braveheart," deals with Edward's unhappy 20-year reign in the first three decades of 14th-century England. In Marlowe's 400-year-old version, Edward is an ineffectual ruler unable to get along with his barons in part because he insists on lavishing power and titles on his lover, Piers Gaveston.
This relationship, which director John Ursu presents in a ...
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