Faustus in Africa!

South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Theatre will forveer be associated with the skeletal wooden puppets from War Horse, but there’s a lot more to them than that: the company has been around for ages, and for the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival they bring back one they made 30 years ago. Faustus in Africa! is a spin on the classic Marlowe play that depicts the soul-selling Faustus as a man out on a reckless African safari. But what will the cost have been to the planet when his deal with the devil ends? Directed by William Kentridge, the story is refashioned into a critique of colonialism and the climate emergency.