Following the production of "Hamlet” in modern dress in London, the Volksbuhne Theatre, Berlin, presented Goethe’s “Faust,” eliminating the medieevalism. Faust is robed as a university proctor or wears a dinner jacket. Mephistopheles waves an opera hat at the Widow 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 problems of a definite historical period, unlike “Hamlet.” which is timeless in subject and matter.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17834, 30 April 1926, Page 7
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