The audience thought the blood pouring from Jude Law's hand was a great effect. The stage manager, however, thought it might be a good idea to introduce the bandage prop early. Despite slicing his hand open while onstage, Law manfully carried on in the title role of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus during a benefit performance at the Young Vic Theatre in London. The after-party was thrown by V.F. at the restaurant Baltic, where it seemed an average of 12 drinks were consumed by each guest. (Perhaps some were trying to drown an intimate working knowledge of the ploy's theme: selling your soul to the Devil.)