The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus

Description
In Marlowe's classic Elizabethan drama, Faustus signs over his soul to the devil in exchange for dark powers and forbidden knowledge (spoiler alert: It does not end well). The Resonants' production consists of a bunch of half-formed, clumsily executed ideas that have little going for them except the cast's admirable sincerity. Meanwhile, the qualities that make the play dramatically interesting go undernourished. The actors speak Marlowe's verse as if it were prose, stripping it of its grandeur and incantatory power. And the black-magic scenes couldn't be handled in more hackneyed fashion.—ZT