Version of Dr. Faustus re-created in Mexico in August 2013 with Mexican dancers and performers, plus Katharina Haverich, German actress that participated in Berlin and Buenos Aires experiences. Old and defeated, Faust, accepts the challenge of a last game of chess with the devil. Mephisto, in an attempt to hold his power over the disheartened Faust, sets him up. Marguerite is the bait (and her replicates Ida, Helena and Annabel) who falls into the abyss of this trap, to come back out strengthened and victorious. Fausto loses the game against Mephisto. The latter is overcome by a woman who no longer needs from others to stand for herself. From victim to deity, to finally restore her own womanhood. The Faustian myth is seen through the eye of Goethe’s Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, Gertrude Stein’s Dr. Faustus lights the lights, Lars von Trier's Antichrist, and the lewd eye of Marcel Duchamp’s Étant Donnés. These are the conceptual references of this staging that proposes a gender clash against the grain of the classic story.

Performers
VIRGINIA AMARILLA
FRANGHIA BALLESTEROS
RAMÓN BARRAGÁN
MÓNICA DEL CARMEN
DIANA DELGADO
KATHARINA HAVERICH
STEPHANIE JANAINA
JIMENA LUNA
SARA MONTERO
ANA ZAVALA

Texts
GERTRUDE STEIN
EMILIO GARCÍA WEHBI
Costume and Object Design
ROSANA APARICIO
Video
ISMAEL CARRASCO
Production
ESTELA ORTIZ
Sound Design
MARCELO MARTÍNEZ
Assistant Director and Producer
PATRICIO VILLARREAL
ANA ZAVALA

Staging and Direction
EMILIO GARCÍA WEHBI
MARICEL ALVAREZ


Teatro El Milagro / Teatro El Galeón (INBA), México DF, 2013.