FAUST IN MODERN DRESS.
CRITICS’ ADVERSE COMMENTS. Berlin, April 9. Following the production of “Hamlet” in modern dress in London, the ’olksbuhue Theatre, Berlin, presented Goethe’s “Faust,” eliminating the mediaevalism. Faust is robed as a university proctor or wears a dinner jqcket. Mephistopheles waves an opera hat at the widow of Martha. Gretchen’s home is a modern suburban villa. Critics express the opinion that the Gretchen tragedy is thus robbed of its ethical foundation, as it deals with the problems of a definite historical period, unlike “Hamlet.” which is timeless in subject and matter.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 96, 10 April 1926, Page 5
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