Christopher Marlowe’s famous tragedy, Doctor Faustus, was first performed around 1595, just a few years after the first translation into English of a medieval legend about a doctor-turned-necromancer, who makes a pact with the devil. A key part of the play is Faust ‘s exchange with Mephistopheles, the devil’s intermediary. By this means Marlowe examines Faustus’s grandiose, but ultimately futile, intellectual ambitions.

Michael Daviot - Faust

Susan Chynoweth - Mephisto

Tim Barrow - Wagner

Janet de Vigne, Felicity Cullen, Lizz Spence: scholars and demons

Directed by Janet de Vigne.

Tickets on sale from 6th April.

Tuesday 6-7pm pre-performance discussion in St John’s hosted by the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature.