GOETHE’S FAUST
MODERNISED PRODUCTION. OPINION GENERALLY UNFAVOURABLE. .. (Preu iMO-latica—By Telegraph—Copyright^ BERLIN, April 9* ‘ *V" (Received April 9, at 10 p.m.) . _ : Following the production of Hamlet m ; modern dress in London, the Volksbuhue Theatre in Berlin presented Goethe’s Faust' ' eliminating madiaevalism. Faust appear*robed as a Lniversity Proctor or he wears r a dinner jacket. Mephistopheles waves an . opera hat at the widow Martha. Gretohen’a home is a modem suburban villa. - * Critics express the opinion that tiU»AGretchen tragedy is thus robbed of if*'A ethical foundation as it deals with problems of a definite historical period unlike , Hamlet which is timeless in its subject matter.—A. and N.Z. Cable. -•
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 11
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