Faustus: That Damned Woman

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.

About the author

Chris Bush is a playwright, lyricist and theatre-maker. Her plays include: Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong, Lyric Hammersmith & Birmingham Rep, 2020); The Last Noël (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2019); The Changing Room (National Theatre Connections, 2018); Steel (Sheffield Theatres, 2018); an adaptation of Pericles (National Theatre, London, 2018); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, written with Matt Winkworth (Theatr Clwyd, 2018); What We Wished For and A Dream.

Summary

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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Bush
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781848429314
• ISBN: 978-1-84842-931-4
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama