Veteran dramatist to stage Faust

The National Center for the Performing Arts will present Goethe's seminal work Faust under veteran director Xu Xiaozhong.

The play's cast will be drawn from the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center and will include some of the best parts of the story, such as the devil's temptation.

Xu, 81, is considered to be the "godfather" of Chinese theater and many famous directors have apprenticed under him, such as Wang Xiaoying and Zha Mingzhe.