Edward II " review
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe Royal Exchange has been transformed, in Ben Stones's elegant design, into a 1950s Parisian jazz bar where you mingle before the performance with hip young things in black polo necks jiving to a hot quartet. Nice.Marlowe's play benefits from such a sweetener, as you search in vain for a character to sympathise with. The king is a feckless playboy; the usurping Mortimer brandishes a new br…