Auditions
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Audition dates: Tuesday 15th or Wednesday 16th July 7pm, Wharf foyer
Performance dates: January 26th-31st 2026
I am looking for a cast of max. 15 people to perform Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century masterpiece about a disenchanted, ambitious scholar who sells his soul to Lucifer in return for unlimited power and knowledge. Music, movement and spectacle will feature heavily in this devilishly entertaining play, which we will start rehearsing in September on mutually-agreed evenings. Please email the director, Liz Seabourne on for scripts and audition pieces and to let her know which audition date you can make.
PRINCIPAL ROLES
Faustus (M) – A scholar. One of the great classical roles. Learned, ambitious, cynical, ‘swollen with self-conceit’, impetuous, easily-led, engaged in constant power-play with Mephistopheles with whom he also develops a co-dependent, affectionate relationship. Massive amount of lines to learn and killer final monologue!
Mephistopheles (M/F) – A devil. Sophisticated, smooth, manipulative but also has his/her own tragic side. Wounded by any reminder of his/her status as a fallen angel. Forms an unexpected bond/friendship with Faustus that verges on (b)romance.
COMEDY ROLES
Wagner (M/F)/Robin (M/F)/Rafe (M)/Hostess (F) – Wagner is a chirpy ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’-type character. S/he will possibly also perform the opening prologue and the closing epilogue. The others are classic ‘clown’ figures of any Elizabethan play whose comic shenanigans mirror and satirise the serious main plot.
SUPPORTING ROLES
Comprising Good Angel, Bad Angel, Valdes, Cornelius, Scholars, Lucifer, Pride, Covetousness, Wrath, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony, Lechery, Good Christian, Emperor, Empress, Pope, Cardinal, Friars, Choruses. I will double these parts so everyone gets to appear regularly through the play.
NON-SPEAKING ROLES
I also need two dancers to play evil spirits, apparitions, and to choreograph their own dance at one point. They will get a lot of stage time!