Faust: Parts I & II

Cast: 8f 13m with doubling

Staging: Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 282 pages ISBN: 9781854592040Publication Date:
21 Sep 1995
Size: 198mm x 130mm£15.99 £12.79You save £3.20 (20%)
Ebook, 282 pages ISBN: 9781780015576Publication Date:
5 Jan 2015
£15.99 £12.79You save £3.20 (20%)
First Staged:
Original c1820; this version, RSC, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1995

Faust: Parts I & II

By Johann Wolfgang Goethe Adapted by Howard Brenton

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A two-part version of Goethe's great work, retaining the mighty scope, linguistic daring and philosophical intricacy of the original.

God and Mephistopheles make a bet on who can win the soul of Dr Faust. The good doctor signs a contract that offers him boundless knowledge and sensual gratification – but on one condition...

This version of Faust by Howard Brenton was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1995.

Note for Performers: this version was designed to be performed in two parts of two and a half hours each, but can also be cut to make one long play.

Press Quotes

'Vigorous, colloquial and often very funny'

Guardian

'Witty and actable'

Financial Times

'Full of intellectual swagger, robust humour, driving poetical passion and barefaced cheek'

Sunday Times

Cast: 8f 13m with doubling

Staging:Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,282 pages ISBN: 9781854592040Publication Date:
21 Sep 1995
Size: 198mm x 130mm£15.99 £12.79You save £3.20 (20%)
Ebook,282 pages ISBN: 9781780015576Publication Date:
5 Jan 2015
£15.99 £12.79You save £3.20 (20%)

Also by Johann Wolfgang Goethe:

Faust Parts 1 & 2

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Also by Howard Brenton:

Never So Good
Dances of Death
Berlin Bertie
Creditors
The Shadow Factory
Jude
Cancelling Socrates
Doctor Scroggy's War
Lawrence After Arabia
The Blinding Light
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Drawing the Line
Anne Boleyn
Miss Julie
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Paul
Eternal Love
55 Days
Miss Julie & Creditors

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