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Theatre Review: Doctor Faustus
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The Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE’S play Doctor Faustus presents any modern director with a key problem. How can a contemporary audience, no longer in thrall to religious mythology, take seriously Faustus’s pact with the devil and his minister Mephistophilis, trading his immortal soul for 24 years of gratification of his every desire?
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