REVIEW: Doctor Faustus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe London ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Paulette Randall’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe in London
Mark Ludmon reviews Paulette Randall’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe in London
This is a play where the inhabitants of a Nunnery are slain by poisoned porridge; where the daughter of a Jew becomes a Christian Nun, twice; where, having purchased a Thracian slave, owner and slave engage in a bout of one-upmanship about the vile deeds they claim to enjoy; where Friars are referred to as “religious caterpillars”; where the Jew inquires if theft is the basis of Christianity; where a Friar casually asks if the Jew has been “crucifying children”; and where no one, really, has any redeeming features. It all but screams farce, even if some of the subject matter is repugnant and, sadly, deadly accurate.