On the 14th of November we went to watch Scene Productions perform Doctor Faustus at Roses Theatre

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On the 14th of November we went to watch Scene Productions perform Doctor Faustus at Roses Theatre. It was adapted from the play written by Marlowe and was published in 1604.

We were first enhanced by the red lighting which immediately highlighted a specific motif of evil. I was constantly thrilled by the arrogant hero who makes a pact with the devil to gain forbidden power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus finds himself getting dragged into the murky depths of hell. The low budget performance consisted of a mass of creativity, as the set didn’t change throughout the whole thing. There were small candles used to illuminate the stage and set which cleverly symbolized the heat that burns in life and death.

The music was constructed by Danny Bright. It was purposely sinister; the hearing of distance screams and crashes gave the impression of a dark and forbidden place, in which good things were purposely restricted. The music was playing before the characters were introduced on stage; this was to set an eerie atmosphere beforehand. As the screams and crashes were played, Lucifer looked amongst the audience and pointed, to suggest that she can see the people entering Hell. The constant smile on her fact represented her character as liking evil and to be ironically sinister.

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We were first introduced to both Katharine Hurst who played the role of Lucifer and Stuart Walker who played the role of Mephistopheles. Lucifer was wearing red and black to highlight the setting of hell and the sinister and demented character she played the role of. The constant poking out of the tongue and the wide spread legs and hand movements represented her as an unusual character who enjoyed luring people into pain. Mephistopheles was wearing a baggy white shirt that was stained to make him have a lower status to the classy costume that Lucifer was wearing to present ...

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