What is your soul worth?

A new adaptation of the infamous myth premiering Fall 2026

Written by Paul Bedard
After Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, and Peter Schumann
With contributions by Jessie Atkinson, Rachel Casparian, Sean Devare, Jesse B. Koehler, Adin Lenahan, Katie Palmer, Francine Pinheiro, Arisael Rivera, and Jo Weingandt

Development timeline

• August 9-17, 2024: First workshop of FAUST/HOPE material
  
• November 1-2, 2024: "Faust in Brooklyn, 2024" presented at The How to Survive the End of the World Cabaret
  
• March 29, 2025: First full-script draft reading
  
• June 16 & 17, 2025: Script workshop
  
• August 5-7, 2025: "Stuff workshop"
  
• October-November, 2026: Premiere
  
  

Inspirations & Sources

Plays

• The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Translations by Walter Kaufmann, Walter Arndt, and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth & Frederick Turner
  
• Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein
  
• Temptation by Vaclav Havel
  
• Faustus by David Mamet
• The musicals Pippin, Damn Yankees, and Little Shop of Horrors
  

Books

• The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman
  
• Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar
  
• Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
  
• Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
  
• Devil’s Contract by Ed Simon
  
• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
  
• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
  
• Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt