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Reviews: Theatre: Faustus
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20080709
Author:Joyce McMillan
FAUSTUS ***
NICOL EDWARDS BAR, EDINBURGH
THE setting is almost perfect for this shoestring production of Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus, staged by Alex Pryce's young Edinburgh-based company Chimaera. In a dank, dripping vault beneath Nicol Edwards Pub in the Old Town, an audience of 30 or so line the walls on pew-like seats; the atmosphere is instantly mediaeval, with a deep sense of the struggle between flesh and faith that is etched into the history of the city, and a definite whiff of the brimstone underworld from which Faustus's demons emerge.
The show that unfolds in this compelling ...
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