FAUST/How I Rose
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 16, 2004
Closed Nov 20, 2004
Opened Nov 16, 2004
Closed Nov 20, 2004
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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http://www.bam.org|www.mexiconowfestival.org
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BAM, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and Teatro de Arena present FAUST/How I Rose, written and designed by John Jesurun, and directed by Martín Acosta.
Adapted from a Spanish language production by Mexico's renowned Teatro de Arena, FAUST/How I Rose takes on a host of cultural, social, and personal politics. A high-flying diplomat, Jesurun's Faust is susceptible to love and its inevitable pain, a vulnerability exploited by his often-sympathetic, female Mephistopheles. Bedeviled by a kind of 360-degree vision, she sees everything from every point of view, simultaneously, and is the atmospheric center of the play.
Part of Mexico Now, a project of Arts International, a citywide festival of contemporary Mexican arts and culture, presenting the work of over 100 Mexican filmmakers; architects; writers; and dance, theater, music, and visual artists at 26 of New York City's leading arts venues in November 2004.
The Wednesday, November 17 performance is in Spanish (no English translation). All other performances in English.
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The devil was cast out of heaven for inventing love -- or, at least, that's the way Mephistopheles (Mónica Dionne) tells it in John Jesurun's FAUST/How I Rose, now receiving its U.S. premiere in a flawed production at BAM's Harvey Theatre.
Jesurun's adaptation of the Faust legend is a radical departure from previous versions. We do not see the famous pact that Faust (Ari Brickman) makes with the devil. Rather than a scholar, this Faust is an international diplomat who's smartly dressed in a black suit and who flies around the world in airplanes. Jesurun has also chosen to make Mephistopheles the focus of his script, and we often feel more sympathy for the devil than for the rest of t[...]