A high flying but arrogant Oxford graduate who comes from a privileged family, has a beautiful girlfriend and seems to have the perfect life. He has just started at a big company. The boss sees potential in him and convinces him to take a promotion which will allow him to travel around the world and become super rich. The job involves him alienating all of his friends and family and becoming corrupt. 24 years later he looks at his life and although he has lots of money he realises that he is lonely and has no one to share his success with.
We read through a summary of each scene of the play to decide which part fit best with our idea. We decided to go with Act 2 Scene 1 as it is the part where Faustus makes the deal with Mephistopholes. We decided this was appropriate as we could set it as the boss persuading the employee to take a promotion.
After we were given the script we shortened it slightly and then decided on parts. I took on the part of Faustus and Catrina, Mephistopholes. We debated whether to play men or women. At first we decided to play men as they are more stereotypically the ruthless business person, however we changed our minds because we thought it might not be clear to the audience. We used the parts of the good angel and bad angel to be represented by the current boyfriend (played by Josh) and the guy she has a crush on at work (played by John). We came up with this idea as the boyfriend is good and doesn't want her to take the promotion and be corrupt. However the office crush is another temptation to go bad.
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