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Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?
Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?

Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?

By Terri Paddock|2022-11-24T23:02:21+00:0015 September 2022|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Jamie O'Neill, Lazarus Theatre, Ricky Dukes, Southwark Playhouse|

What might entice you to sell your soul to the devil? Fame? Riches? Immortality? World peace? A rent-free London flat? Four pints of Guinness? At my post-show Q&A for a production of Doctor Faustus, that was an irresistible question to pose to the company.

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Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

By Terri Paddock|2022-06-19T18:55:22+01:0014 September 2022|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Jamie O'Neill, Lazarus Theatre, Plays, Ricky Dukes, Southwark Playhouse|

I love Lazarus Theatre! My long-time association with this visionary ensemble company continues with their 2022 season, which launches with their reinvention of Marlowe's classic Doctor Faustus, in a limited season at London's Southwark Playhouse.

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Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?
Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

By Terri Paddock|2021-11-21T17:34:32+00:0012 November 2021|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe's Fate, Peter Hodges, White Bear Theatre, William Shakespeare|

More than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly forty plays and more than 150 sonnets.

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Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?
Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T16:07:26+00:001 September 2017|Tags: Angels in America, Christopher Marlowe, classics, Edward II, Elizabethan drama, Gay plays, gay theatre, Lazarus Theatre, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Mark Woolgar, queer theatre, Ricky Dukes, Terri Paddock events, Tristan Bates Theatre, Zack Polanski|

The plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill's Late Company, and the one I hosted last night, to Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century classic Edward II.

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Press Pass: All the reviews (and #GameOfThrones pics) from Doctor Faustus opening
Press Pass: All the reviews (and #GameOfThrones pics) from Doctor Faustus opening

Press Pass: All the reviews (and #GameOfThrones pics) from Doctor Faustus opening

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:52:22+00:0026 April 2016|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Colin Teevan, Doctor Faustus, Game of Thrones, Jamie Lloyd, Jenna Russell, Kit Harington, Rose Leslie|

Rose Leslie papped on the red carpet at Doctor Faustus' West End opening

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Fame before the fall: Kit Harington in bloody Doctor Faustus in 9 quotes
Fame before the fall: Kit Harington in bloody Doctor Faustus in 9 quotes

Fame before the fall: Kit Harington in bloody Doctor Faustus in 9 quotes

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:52:30+00:0026 April 2016|Tags: Ben Power, Christopher Marlowe, Colin Teevan, Derren Brown, Doctor Faustus, Forbes Masson, Game of Thrones, Headlong Theatre, Jade Anouka, Jamie Lloyd, Jamie Lloyd Company, Kit Harington, Pigs Must Fly, Posh, Rupert Goold, Soutra Gilmour, Stage blood, War Horse|

Kit Harington, Jenna Russell and the cast of Doctor Faustus at the Duke of

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Photos and podcast: Why we should edit classics like Hamlet and Marlowe’s Tamburlaine

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-28T23:35:52+00:003 September 2015|Tags: Adam Cunis, Andy Kesson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Marlowe, Gavin Harrington-Odedra, Hamlet, Ken Pickering, Lazarus Theatre, Marlowe Society, Prince Plockey, Ricky Dukes, Sara Reimers, Tamburlaine the Great, Terri Paddock events, Tristan Bates Theatre|

A couple of weeks ago, as part of the ongoing Hamlet hysteria, I was amazed that such an apparent uproar was caused by director Lyndsey Turner's experimenting with the placement of the play's most famous soliloquy, "To be or not to be".

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