Award winning playwright Chris Bush reimagines the Faust myth to explore what we must sacrifice to achieve greatness, and the legacy that we leave behind. Faustus: That Damned Woman is a radical new work in which the iconic character of Faustus becomes a woman who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to traverse centuries and change the course of history. It is premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in January 2020, in a co production with Headlong and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, prior to a UK tour. An epic, ambitious, gothic, baroque fever dream of a piece that takes a well known classic and inverts it to say something truthful about the contemporary female experience.

About the Author

Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright, lyricist and theatre-maker. Her other plays include Steel for Sheffield Theatres, an adaptation of Pericles for the National Theatre, The Changing Room for National Theatre Connections, and the musicals The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (with Matt Winkworth) and Standing at the Sky's Edge (with Richard Hawley).

Reviews

'Original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist'

* Guardian *

'With a ruggedly lyrical style, the writing echoes and counterpoints Marlowe's original play but Bush takes the story in exciting new directions... lively and engaging, peppered with humour... an entertaining, lucid piece of storytelling which bursts with ideas and speculation'

* BritishTheatre.com *

'A re-examination of the most famous pact in world literature from a female slant... rich with ideas... Bush's writing abounds with flair and rhythm'

* Daily Telegraph *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848429314
Author Chris Bush
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books