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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20071226
Author:Soloski, Alexis

Treason's Greetings!

Edward the second

By Christopher Marlowe

Peter Jay Sharp Theater

416 West 42nd Street

212-279-4200

This British king shows a different kind of poker face

The prisoner (Marc Vietor), naked save for a loincloth and covered in filth, is hauled to his unsteady feet and sodomized with a burning poker. Suddenly, waterboarding seems almost quaint. That scene of royal skewering doesn't actually appear in Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second. Though widely rumored as the means of the English king's death, Marlowe leaves the poker out, contenting himself with the stage ...

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