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Article: CLASSIC `DOCTOR FAUSTUS' ENTER THE ERA OF VIDEO.(NORFOLK COMPASS)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 4, 1999
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Byline: MONTAGUE GAMMON III, CORRESPONDENT
Unfailingly audacious and imaginative, often close to brilliance and occasionally awkward, The Governor's School for the Arts production of Marlowe's ``Faustus'' pulls a 400-year-old work of genius into our video era. The updates will captivate current audiences, and doubtlessly infuriate purists even as they are fascinated.
As the production solves problems presented by a script that has come down to us vastly changed from what its author probably wrote, it has continued the alterations and discarded chunks of the surviving poetry. Seeing the show is recommended, but so is reading the play afterwards.
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