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Sound & Fury's Doc Faustus (2 stars)

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The three-time People's Choice (Adelaide Fringe) award-winning LA-based Vaudeville trio brought hits Cyranose (2008) and Sherlock (2009), which assured their triumphant return! Now, a parody mash-up play of Faust and every Western movie ever made, with song, silliness, and sex…ual innuendo! 'This is a delightful hour! ' ★★★★ (Scotsman). 'It's impossible to accurately convey in words what an infectiously riotous piece of nonsense this is, just go see it!' ★★★★ (Chortle.co.uk). 'Deliciously silly!' ★★★★★ (Fest). 'Comic genius! Naturally and effortlessly hysterical!' ★★★★★ (Edinburgh Evening News). ★★★★★ (ThreeWeeks). ★★★★★ (Fringereview.co.uk). ★★★★★ (Hairline.org.uk). Ages 14+.

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Sound & Fury's Doc Faustus

22 Aug 20122 stars

Comedy troupe deliver a low-quality western pastiche of the famous morality tale

When you first read, or saw an adaptation of, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, was your first thought: ‘it’s okay but what it really needs is more cowboys’? If you did Sound and Fury have answered your prayers with a country and western take on the…

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