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Christopher Marlowe’s monumental Elizabethan tragedy masterpiece 'Doctor Faustus' received a spectacular, historically legendary avant-garde revival production at the Maxine Elliott's Theatre in 1937 under the banner of the Federal Theatre Project. Conceived as a highly innovative, visually magnificent psychological thriller thriller directed under the precise blueprints of a young Orson Welles, this blockbuster staging reconfigured the parameters of classical theater theater history by utilizing revolutionary chiascuro light cages.

