The Classical Theatre Company puts on an antic disposition (to borrow Hamlet's phrase) for its rare Houston staging of "Doctor Faustus," Christopher Marlowe's blank verse tragedy first seen in 1588.
In a rehearsal studio at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, preparations for Doctor Faustus have taken an unexpected turn. Director Dominic Hill is fine-tuning a scene in which a team of heavily-armed CIA ...
The concept of selling your soul is embedded deep in our culture. It may no longer be the Middle Ages but signing a pact with the Devil is still a universal metaphor, popping up in everyday language ...
Yet it doesn’t take long, when sitting in the candlelit intimacy of the Sam Wanamaker theatre, to work out how utterly apt it is to make a character who seeks forbidden knowledge female. There is, ...
Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s and became the Telegraph's lead theatre critic in 2014. He is the founding editor of the leading audio resource ...
AC/DC singing “Highway to Hell” is part of the heavy metal staging of Christopher Marlowe’s play “Faustus,” currently running in a strong student production at Foothill College. Playwright Marlowe, a ...
TWO actors face each other and strike matches to determine who will play Faustus and who will play Lucifer’s bagman Mephistophilis. The one whose match goes out first plays Faustus. Distilled into ...
On the narrow playing space in the Kibble Palace – itself like a small earthly vision of heaven to generations of Glaswegians – designer Carys Hobbs places just an old desk with some books, a screen ...
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