The Oxford University Dramatic Society’s production of “Dr Faustus” is set against the backdrop of the University’s fifteenth century cloisters. – Vintage Photograph

The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) is staging a “son et lumiere” production of “Dr Faustus” in the University’s floodlit fifteenth century cloisters. The production stars some of the University’s most talented young actors, including Piers Gibbon as Faustus and Mark Roberts as Mephistopheles. To enhance the heightened atmosphere, the famous clock will be switched off to strike midnight during Faustus’s dying speech. This is the second time OUDS is staging the play, with the last production featuring a special guest appearance by Elizabeth Taylor.The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) is staging a “son et lumiere” production of “Dr Faustus” in the University’s floodlit fifteenth century cloisters. The production stars some of the University’s most talented young actors, including Piers Gibbon as Faustus and Mark Roberts as Mephistopheles. To enhance the heightened atmosphere, the famous clock will be switched off to strike midnight during Faustus’s dying speech. This is the second time OUDS is staging the play, with the last production featuring a special guest appearance by Elizabeth Taylor.

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ANDREW HILL. (Credit) Jessica Shaw (above) and Piers Gibbon as Dr Faustus top right) SPIRIT OF EVIL: Jessica Shaw as a stone demon Si duce to zols strange sightings. incre are those that say a spirit haunts the cloisters. Whether you believe in it or not, the snarling fea- tures of the grotesques and gargoyles seen to leer out of the shadows in the fad- ing evening light, making it the perfect dramatic setting to conjure up the forces of evil. SOUL 1987 And it is this natural stage, with the fifteenth century cloisters overshadowed by the col- lege chapel and its famous bell-tower, which make it an original and memorable production, say directors. will the play’s The story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of knowledge and power is being staged as a “son et lumiere” produc- tion in the floodlit cloisters. It will start later than normal at 9.30 pm to KATE PITSON PHOTOS: ANDREW HALL make full use heightened atmosphere. of the nocturnal Even the famous clock normally the focus of May morning celebrations – will be switched off so that it strikes midnight dur- ing Faustus’s dying speech. This Oxford University Dramatic Society produc- tion stars the best of their talented young actors, in- cluding Piers Gibbon as Faustus and Mark Roberts as Mephistopheles. none But they have a hard act to follow the last time OUDS staged the play it guest-starred one of the society’s keenest benefac- tors, other than Richard Burton, with Elizabeth Taylor in a sup- porting role.