Doctor Faustus, Duke of York's Theatre
Blood, sexual violence, power games and lashings of nudity. Not Game of Thrones, whose new season has just premiered (yes, he's really dead. Well, for now) " and whose shadow Kit Harington is trying to escape " but Jamie Lloyd's graphic take on Marlowe. It's a production determined to hold your attention, and, thanks to its comic carnival of excess, largely successful in that pursuit. However, like the magic tricks b…