THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe, adapted and directed by Kirsten Brandt, San Jose Repertory Theatre
Scenic, lighting, and media design by David Lee Cuthbert, costume design by Cathleen Edwards, sound design by Rick Lombardo, puppets by Gina Hayes. staged managed by Deirdre Holland
featuring: Rachel Harker, Lyndsy Kail, Mark Anderson Phillips, Halsey Varady
PRESS:
Director Kirsten Brandt’s sprawling, inventive adaptation of the Christopher Marlowe classic… it’s a lively, often captivating and provocative wrestle with a famously difficult play…. That’s largely because of the imaginative, stripped-down stagings by Brandt and her intrepid designers. It’s also due to the fully invested performances of Mark Anderson Phillips, in the title role, and Lyndsy Kail, Rachel Harker and Halsey Varady as everyone else in the play’s world and underworld – San Francisco Chronicle
… director Kirsten Brandt has succeeded in making this classic play into a sprawling inventive presentation, using awesome projections, fantastic lighting effects, and overhead views of mystical sand creations all on a bare stage… Kirsten Brandt has made this barebones and steam punk-tech production stimulating, sparkling, and even fascinating…The director is doing this play with just four actors, one man and three women, playing an assortment of characters. The whole production has a Wagnerian effect on how the actors, set designer, costume designer and light and video designers coexist. – Talking Broadway
… a strange but beautiful, disturbing yet fascinating, dark and mysterious production. [IT] is different, uncomfortable and thought provoking. As far as I’m concerned, it is everything that theatre should be… – San Jose Metblogs