Theatre Events

Doctor Faustus at the Stratford Circus Theatre, London

Note: This production is now finished, but the review links may still be of interest.
Date: Tuesday 12 January to Saturday 06 February 2010 at 7.30pm; matinees on Thursdays at 2pm.
Venue: Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BX [Directions & Map]. Tel: 020 8279 1001.
Ticket Prices: £16; Concessions £12; School and College parties £9.50.
Reviews: Independent; Times; Telegraph; What's On Stage; British Theatre Guide; Twitter.
Summary: A Present Moment production, directed by Joss Bennathan, and starring Babou Ceesay as Faustus and Simon Rivers as Mephistopheles: "Faustus wants knowledge. The devil wants his soul. But, if you make a bargain with the devil, can you change your mind? Christopher Marlowe's classic drama is brought to life in a modern metropolis where the devil is a puppet master and every move is watched. Horror, comedy, suspense and tragedy combine in a world where shadowy figures transform and shape the people and places on Faustus' journey. Stratford Circus' longest running show with 26 performances!"
Website Links: Stratford Circus Venue; Video Interviews; Present Moment Theatre Company.

Date: Thursday 14 January to Thursday 01 April 2010
Venue: The American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse.
Address: 10, South Market St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA. [Directions & Map]
Tickets: Priced $10 to $40: buy online or from the box office.
Summary: The ASC presents Doctor Faustus: "In his masterpiece that predates almost all Shakespeare's plays, Marlowe breathtakingly conjures Helen of Troy, the Seven Deadly Sins, good angels and bad angels, Satan himself, and devils to drag Faustus to hell. Doctor Faustus is a story of a man selling his soul, not for riches, but knowledge and power. Marlowe's fascination with the temptations of magic and the outer limits of ambition are amazingly contemporary, making Doctor Faustus and Everyman, and in his struggle with good and evil, he champions what is most daring in the human spirit." See also the cast listing.
Website Link: American Shakespeare Center

Date: 23 April to 03 October 2010
Venue: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Address: 21, New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9DT.
Tel No: 020-7401-9919 (Globe Box Office)
Tickets: Tickets (priced £5 standing in the Yard up to £35) are on general sale from 15 February.
Summary: The Globe Theatre's 2010 season provides a stage for some of Shakespeare's most regal rogues and some of his most roguish kings. Falstaff is celebrated in three of the plays: Henry IV Parts I and II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, whilst Macbeth also makes a return. Pageantry blends with real-politik as Henry VIII makes his bow at the modern Globe, in a play written by Shakespeare at the end of his career in collaboration with John Fletcher, along side his most notorious wife Anne Boleyn in Howard Brenton's new play. And the season finishes in the great 18th century gin epidemic via Nell Leyshon's new play Bedlam. Plus The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream are on tour again.
Website Link: Shakespeare's Globe

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