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Berks Opera Company’s ‘Faust’ focuses on addiction (2015)
A take on Faust that has the titular character selling his soul to heroin rather than the Devil as a 21st century temptation. Whether intentional or not, this evokes the description of Faust as being “addicted” in The English Faust Book published in 1592, when “addict” was a newer term referring to the paradoxical choice of giving up one’s choice continually to something else, like sin.