The original play sees the Doctor Who and My Lady Jane stars perform as real-life playwrights Christopher "Kit" Marlowe and William Shakespeare, who find themselves locked in a battle of rivalry, secrecy and flirtation.
Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com ahead of their West End run, Bluemel promised his Shakespeare would be "different to anything we've seen before".
He said: "There's no wig, I don't have the classic Shakespeare look. I think the whole point is that here's a contemporary feel to it and it's just two actors who are giving themselves to the characters. It feels modern."
"When the play was announced, there were still people that saying, 'why have you made Shakespeare gay?' we did not make Shakespeare queer.
"Shakespeare sort of hid it throughout his work, but in his plays it's there. But Marlowe wrote Edward II, which is about a gay king. That would have been wildly controversial to write at the time and it was clear that these two men wanted to see that represented on stage, but in their own different ways. So that's one of the clashes in the play that makes them both different."
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