Video by Seth Dumas: Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare at Winedale, July 26 - August 11, 2013

Video by Seth Dumas for the 


Shakespeare in Winedale

production of 

Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe


July 26, and 28 at 7:30 p.m.
August 3 and 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Shakespeare at Winedale 43rd Summer Season, July 18 - August 11, 2013

Shakespeare at Winedale Theater Barn, Winedale Historical Center, Round Top, TX - click for map


TICKETS: $10 General Admission; $5 Student/UT ID Holders

Available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726


Shakespeare at Winedale’s 2013 Summer Class takes the stage this summer with performances of The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Henry IV, Part I, and, for the first time at Winedale, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Performances will begin July 18th and run through August 11th; performances are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 7:30pm with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission or $5 for students/UT ID holders and may be ordered online through the Shakespeare at Winedale website www.shakespeare-winedale.org.

Shakespeare at Winedale Schedule, 2013

2013

presents

The Comedy of Errors

The Tempest

Henry IV, Part IV

and Christopher Marlowe's

Dr. Faustus

SHAKESPEARE AT WINEDALE 2013 announcement, University of Texas

Shakespeare in Winedale
Summer 2013 Season:

The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Henry IV, Part I
and 
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.

Shakespeare at Winedale 43rd Summer Season, July 18 - August 11, 2013

Shakespeare at Winedale Theater Barn, Winedale Historical Center, Round Top, TX

TICKETS: $10 General Admission; $5 Student/UT ID Holders

Available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726

Shakespeare at Winedale’s 2013 Summer Class takes the stage this summer with performances of The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Henry IV, Part I, and, for the first time at Winedale, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Performances will begin July 18th and run through August 11th; performances are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 7:30pm with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission or $5 for students/UT ID holders and may be ordered online through the Shakespeare at Winedale website www.shakespeare-winedale.org.

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Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Last Act Theatre Company, October 12 - 28

by Michael Meigs

Faustus, why do you torment me so? This production of the work of the mercurial Christopher Marlowe, an exact contemporary of Shakespeare, stabbed to death in a tavern at the age of 29, held me at an uneasy distance despite its robust verse and stark dilemma.


Austin's Last Act Theatre Company, just over a year old, demonstrates its art and vaunting ambition in daring to take on this text. Their productions for love of the art have been low-budget stagings in a succession of found locales around town. Doctor Faustus is presented, appropriately enough, behind a tavern -- the Pour House on Burnett Road -- in an edifice in stone that must have been used as a garage, judging from the stout girders, chains and decommissioned hoist overhead. Lengths of black curtain mask the corners. The audience is seated in the depth of the room and the principal entrances are through the same wide doorway that gave spectators access to the space. Props are few and simple; director Kevin Gates relies on his cast of 13 to create this work in the style that it would have been done in a tavern courtyard or a church portico.

Karen Alvarado, Ben McLemore (image: Jim McKay)

In theme and presentation Doctor Faustus is directly in the tradition of the medieval mystery plays. Few texts of them are extant. Those works may have been largely improvised, but both the French and English manuscripts that remain confirm the traditions of staging Bible pageants to communicate to the people the stories mostly sealed up in the impenetrable Latin of Jerome's Vulgate. The struggle to translate the Bible into vernacular languages didn't really begin until the mid-1500's. 


Marlowe wrote this text, his second drama, in about 1588 (before Shakespeare had produced anything he could put his name to). It was probably based upon a German text of about that date, registered in English translation only in 1592. To complicate matters further, Marlowe's work exists in two variants, the first printed in 1604 and the second printed in 1616. Theatre entrepreneur Philip Henslowe recorded in his account book for 1602 that he had paid two dramatists for additional scenes to be added to Doctor Faustus. The drama continued to be produced up until 1642, shortly before Cromwell and the Puritans closed the theatres.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .