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Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus (Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts)
18 August @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Christopher Marlowe’s famous tragedy, Doctor Faustus, was first performed around 1595, just a few years after the first translation into English of a medieval legend about a doctor-turned-necromancer, who makes a pact with the devil. A key part of the play is Faust ‘s exchange with Mephistopheles, the devil’s intermediary. By this means Marlowe examines Faustus’s grandiose, but ultimately futile, intellectual ambitions.
Michael Daviot – Faust
Susan Chynoweth – Mephisto
Tim Barrow – Wagner
Janet de Vigne, Felicity Cullen: scholars and demons
Directed by Janet de Vigne.
TICKETS on sale from Fringe Box Office and Eventbrite
Tuesday 6-7pm pre-performance discussion in St John’s hosted by the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature.