Robert Hardman and Kate Williams trace how Edward II’s friendship with Piers Gaveston sparked a political crisis. From Gaveston’s exiles to Edward’s marriage to Isabella of France, the episode ...

Tamara Harvey took no heed and Edward II sees her RSC compadre, Daniel Evans (pictured below, kneeling centre), back on stage after 14 years and in the title role to boot. In Daniel Raggett’s stripped ...

"I'll bandy with the barons and the earls, and either die or live with Gaveston." There has been much conjecture over the centuries as to the true nature of Edward II’s relationship with Piers ...

Isabella of France, often called the “She-Wolf of France,” was one of the most powerful and influential women of the Middle Ages. Born in 1295 as the daughter of King Philip IV of France, she was ...

Directed by Daniel Raggett, Marlowe’s tender, yet violent play about King Edward II and the man he loves features Daniel Evans - the RSC’s Co-Artistic Director and double Olivier Award-winner - in the ...

Edward, much to the despair of his wife and contempt of his barons, is very fond of both. King Edward comes to the throne, and immediately recalls his banished lover, Pierce Gaveston- an order that ...

If it feels like a while since Daniel Evans performed on a major stage outside the odd Sondheim turn, then it’s not really much of a surprise. He’s had a few theatres to run and is currently sharing ...

Not that Scartazzini is afraid to put his audience through the mill in his Swiss-written, German-staged telling of an English story premiered in 2017. Over the course of Edward II’s Hamlet-like ...