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...MOVIES Doctor Faustus Lots of grads bring their wives back to the old school and ham it up for home movies - but this is ridiculous...
...Burton version of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus was cooked up in 1966 with the help of his old drama coach at the Oxford University Dramatic Society, plus 48 undergraduate actors, plus Wife Elizabeth. Every body involved got a kick out of doing it, but Marlowe got the boot. Burton and Professor Nevill Coghill cropped lines, gouged passages, transplanted speeches and transposed sequences with complete indifference to the original...
Visually, the Burton Faustus is a darkling carnival of skeletons, candles, caves and necromancy, tricked out with such cinematic hocus-pocus as action shots montaged into a skull's eye sock et and heartbeats lub-dubbed onto the sound track. There is even a bit of bor rowing here too: a film clip of the magnificent charge of the French knights at Agincourt from Olivier's Henry V inexplicably turns up, and it is easily the best thing in the movie...
...lately become familiar with the accounts of some users who report dazzling states of heightened awareness or mystical experiences worthy of St. Teresa of Avila; others claim insights that have changed their lives. In John Mersey's latest novel, Too Far to Walk, the Devil feeds Faustus LSD ("The closest equivalent to infinity in sheer living"). There have also been stories of "bad trips"-writhing nightmares that end in the nearest psychiatric ward. Occasionally LSD is a one-way trip. Since the recent flood of sensational publicity about LSD has let up somewhat, it is possible to assess...
Andreas W. Teuber '64 will co-star with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a production of Marlow's Dr. Faustus at Oxford University this February...