A deceptive lightness of tone brings new resonance to the textWhat do you gain by casting Dr Faustus and Mephistopheles as women? In the programme for this often illuminating production, director Pauline Randall declares, "There's always a rather intimidating, institutional question of 'why' when it comes to these decisions, and especially when it comes to handling a classical text. Sometimes the right refute is 'why…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:18AM on December 7, 2018