Doctor Faustus
Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee, ’tis not half so fair as thou,
Or any man that breathes on earth.
Four friends sit in a room full of books, wasting time. Finally, one of them picks up Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan tragedy Doctor Faustus. The friends start reading, turning into angels, devils, lost souls; delving deep into the darkest corners of their desires.
A timeless tale about running out of time, the play follows Doctor Faustus, a gifted scholar led astray by his burning thirst for knowledge. Refusing to recognise there should be any limit to the power of his mind, Faustus sells his soul to the demon Mephistopheles in exchange for twenty-four years of magic. But his conscience is not so easily silenced, especially when voiced by a chorus of angels who won’t let him give up on his soul. Time to repent is rapidly running out, but even eternal fire can be tempting, when shared with the sweet devil Mephistophilis …
Adapted and directed by Raffaella Sero, this modern take on Marlowe’s classic confronts contemporary audiences with the most urgent question about the limits of knowledge and of individual power: what is the price of your humanity?
Written by Christopher Marlowe, adapted by Raffaella Sero
Directed by Raffaella Sero
Cast
Mephistopheles: Liam Macmillan
Evil Angel: Jack Medlin
Good Angel: Flossie Adrian
Doctor Faustus: Kit Ford
Crew
Director: Raffaella Sero
Producer: Lania Hamilton
Assistant Director: Nash Metaxas
Set Designer: Eloise Piper
Stage Manger: Julia Portsmouth
Running time: 60mins
Date & Time: Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th October at 7:30pm
Content Warnings: 18+ Discussion of suicide, self-harm, and violence.
Audience Guidelines
Latecomers will not be admitted. Ticket purchases are non refundable.
Concession prices apply to students; under 18s; pensioners; those on disability and unemployment benefits; Equity, BECTU & SDUK members.
The Bread & Roses Theatre is an unfunded venue that continues to operate on ticket sales only. Donations help support independent arts and theatremakers, an essential step in preserving the future of fringe theatre.
Venue: The Bread and Roses Theatre
Home of The Lambeth Fringe, The Bread & Roses, is an award-winning and innovative fringe pub theatre.
A 50-seat fringe venue above The Bread & Roses Pub, the theatre programs a wide-spread variety of productions for local as well as far-reaching audiences. Equality, diversity and artistic quality are at the forefront of the theatre's programming, which features in-house productions as well as many visiting companies. The theatre regularly hosts touring shows and has worked with award-winning ensembles with decades of experience but also frequently welcomes and supports emerging theatre-makers taking their first steps. The programme includes new writing, contemporary revivals, reinvented classics and occasionally also devised work, improvisational theatre, comedy events, family shows and physical theatre.
Recently renovated, The Bread and Roses Theatre features brand new tiered seating, with 50 new individual seats, and a professional floor.
Theatre: Capacity 50, full rig, lighting desk and sound system. Projector and mics hire-able.
Perfect for: Theatre, new-writing, WIP, solo shows and boundary pushing work.
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