Play Reviews: Johann Faustus
... Johann Faustus OLD VIC WHEN THE clock strikes, it is not Christ's blood which streams in the firmament for Faustus but the marching song of the oppressed Middle European peasantry, sahd- wiched chronologically between our own Peasants' Revolt of the 14th century and the French Jacquerie of the 17th. In an age of accepted non- belief and from the pen of Brecht's second collaborator Hanns Eisler ...