The Rose Playhouse, London: In a sparse, one-man production that combines atmospheric intimacy with a gripping performance, Doctor Faustus returns to the original Rose Playhouse, Bankside, where the play was originally staged 420 years ago. The not-fully-excavated site on the South Bank's first Elizabethan theatre provides the perfect cavernous, candle-lit backdrop to the contest over the soul of a man. Read the…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:20AM on February 7, 2014