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Arts Diary: This work of the Devil is true; Philip Key at a powerful Playhouse production.(Features)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20050209
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Byline: Philip Key

IT MAY have been written more than 400 years ago but Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus can still pack a powerful punch.

No more so than in this new production in which Faustus is played as a modern day university lecturer, complete with corduroy jacket and spectacles.

This is an Exorcist-styled version which opens with lots of smoke, a library lined with thousands of ancient books and curious voices directed at Faustus.

That creepy feeling dominates the production as Faustus decides to dabble in black magic in his search for meaning in life and ...

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