Word: faustus
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This grabber is the lead-off speech of Lawrence Durrell's new play, An Irish Faustus, which is playing at Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus...
...given Durrell another chance to work toward his announced objective: "To find out if it's possible to write a poetic drama that's really stageable and exciting." His chief postulate apparently is that if he can't do it, no one can. But An Irish Faustus confides little to the reason and unintentionally mocks a great deal more than Aristotle. Durrell describes it as "a morality," but it is really a pretension. Durrell himself was hooted from the stage...
Shots & Sketches. The hero is a boy scout Faustus who has voluntarily put aside his all-powerful magic ring of alchemized gold. But he happens to be working as a tutor to the Princess Margaret in the Irish castle of the lusty Queen Katherine. The Queen has become ravenous with desire for her dead husband, who has turned into a vampire. She arranges the theft of Faustus' ring and vamps the vampire, turning him back temporarily into human flesh...
...students which will combine lectures and discussions with normal rehearsals. The company's program, which will begin carly this December, will culminate in full-length productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Julius Caesar, and concert reading of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, the Jew of Malta, Edward II, and Dr. Faustus...
...Reading comprehension is low: the average U.S. twelfth-grader understands only 67% of what he reads in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins, only 28% of Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus. The rate for magazines is 78% for Modern Screen and Silver Screen, 54% for the Saturday Evening Post, 35% for TIME and 28% for the Atlantic...