a ballet adaptation was created for Stuttgart Ballet. The Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company 2007 staging used mostly fascist-era and jazz-age costumes. The production strongly emphasized the gay relationship between Edward II and Gaveston and was one of two Marlowe works inaugurating the company's new Sidney Harman Hall. In 2011, EM-LOU Productions staged the play at The Rose Theatre, Bankside, returning it for the first time in 400 years to the space where it may have had its very first production. The production was directed by Peter Darney. In October 2013, the New National Theatre Tokyo staged the play in Japanese, featuring Mori Shintaro as a director. In July 2016, an adaptation opened at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, directed by Matthew Lutton and written by Anthony Weigh. In January 2019, An Other Theater Company in Provo, Utah staged the play for the first time in the state. The production was co-directed by Jessamyn Svensson and Kailey Azure Green. In December 2019, the play was once again revived by the Nottingham New Theatre at the University of Nottingham, 59 years after the first revival. Bertolt Brecht's adaptation The play was adapted by Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger in 1923 as The Life of Edward II of England (Leben Eduard des Zweiten von England). The Brecht version, while acknowledging Marlowe's play as its source, uses Brecht's own words, ideas and structure, and is regarded as a separate work. The German premiere took place in 1924 under Brecht's direction at the Munich Kammerspiele with Erwin Faber and Hans Schweikart as Edward and Baldock; the New York premiere of Brecht's play took place in 1982, staged by W. Stuart McDowell by the Riverside Shakespeare Company, sponsored by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival at The Shakespeare Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Notes Sources Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923. Further reading Marlowe, Christopher. Edward II, Nick Hern Books, London, 1997. Jeff Rufo, "Marlowe's Minions: Sodomitical Politics in Edward II and The Massacre at Paris", Marlowe Studies 1 (2011): 5–24. External links Text at The Perseus Project Text at Bartleby.com Text at Project Gutenberg First Quarto (1594) at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich Bright Lights Film Journal article on the Edinburgh Festival production of Edward II 1592 plays British plays adapted into films Plays by Christopher Marlowe English Renaissance plays LGBT-related plays Plays set in the 14th century