Colin Teevan’s re-telling of Doctor Faustus premiers in Leeds
The premier of lecturer Colin Teevan's new version of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus takes place in Leeds in a few weeks.
The premier of lecturer Colin Teevan’s new version of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus takes place in Leeds in a few weeks.
Faustus’s restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to perform the black arts. The life-changing decision propels him into a heady, celebrity-obsessed world, as magician and illusionist to the rich and famous. Quenching sexual desires as his power grows, he must question whether the price was worth paying.
As well as being partly written by one of our lecturers, this production has another link to theatre studies at Birkbeck, as the assistant director, Andy Whyment, is one of our MFA Theatre Directing students on secondment with West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Doctor Faustus will be running at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds from 23 February to 16 March.
Related links
- Oberon Books: Doctor Faustus
- Academic profile: Colin Teevan
- MFA Theatre Directing at Birkbeck
- All Theatre Studies courses at Birkbeck