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Mephistopheles Version 6.0; Marlowe's `Doctor Faustus' Gets an Update

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981103
Author:Jane Horwitz

When the Devil visits Dr. Faustus in his study at Theater of the First Amendment tomorrow night, he'll hand him the book of all knowledge -- and it'll be a Powerbook. Director Rick Davis says Faust "asks Mephistopheles what it's all about . . . and Mephistopheles boots it up and then we're time-traveling."

Christopher Marlowe's 1588 play "Doctor Faustus" seemed to lend itself to a multimedia, century-spanning presentation, Davis said during a break in a rehearsal last week. "There's a set of lines in the prologue which I've taken as permission to do this, where the chorus says, `His ...

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