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Faustus in Africa! review – William Kentridge’s devilishly clever twist on damnation

Faustus is not damned alone in a parable about western hubris leading to war, colonialism and environmental exploitation

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer

Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere, the joy of pickling, a landmark jazz album and Elton John’s libel case take centre stage

The Guardian - UK

‘It is absolutely, fundamentally not autobiography’: Chris Bush on her new play about the trans experience

The award-winning British dramatist had a huge hit with her Richard Hawley musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge. Her latest, Otherland, is a much more personal piece – and, she says, frightening

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States of Play: making sense of football’s descent into the morass

In charting the game’s transformation into a geopolitical weapon, new book serves an urgent and crucial purpose

The Guardian - UK

The problem with new claims that Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was co-written by a forgotten dramatist

In Shakespeare’s time, about a quarter of all plays were collaboratively written by two or more dramatists. Christopher Marlowe’s classic work Doctor Faustus was first performed in the 1580s or early 1590s but only published in 1604, 11 years after his death. The dramatists Samuel Rowley and William Bird were…

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Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus may have been co-written by forgotten dramatist

Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work

The Guardian - UK

Dominic West is a fabulous Faustus but this movie marathon plays the devil with Marlowe

West joined a starry cast for script-in-hand readings of Christopher Marlowe’s complete works in Canterbury. The resulting films are frustrating

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Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton review – their dark materials

This fascinating and richly detailed study of the evolution of magic in the 15th and 16th centuries reveals that accusations of witchcraft rarely stuck to learned men

The Guardian - UK

Hessian hyena and a pack of playful concepts reveal bright future for stage design

The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers’ royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus

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