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Deal with the devil: director David Herskovits sells his soul to Goethe's Faust--and brings his company into the pact.(CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK)(Interview)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20060501
Author:Sellar, Tom

Most people are a little daunted by Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's sprawling 19th-century epic verse drama, but David Herskovits shows no sign of fear. "If you're not interested in the weirdness of Goethe's play, then why do it?" he says with a mischievous grin. "The answer, of course, is that nobody does it! That's why this is a match made in heaven."

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That match--between Goethe's masterpiece, perhaps the most important German literary work in any genre, and Herskovits's inventive, Brooklyn-based Target Margin Theater--is currently providing ...

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