Lyric Hammersmith, LondonChris Bush's female Faustus is original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist " but this bare-boned production fails to save its soul Doctor Faustus, as we know him from folk legend, is a doomed overreacher whose quest for worldly power earns him eternal damnation in his pact with the devil. Chris Bush's antihero is a very different creation: Johanna Faustus is an earnest 17th-century work…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM on January 29, 2020