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The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia. In this episode 326, all about Julia, one of my very favorite plays, Dr. Faustus by

Christopher Marlowe. Yes, Amanda, kind of keeping with the fact that we are theater kids at heart

still and now and for always. And we recently covered the Edibus plays.

I wanted to bring up another play that really does kind of tie into mythology and folklore, which we haven't really gotten a chance to talk about here on the podcast, and that is, in fact, Dr. Faustus.

Yes.

I am sure a lot of people listening, they've probably heard the name Faust or Faustus, or maybe have heard of something about the Faustian deal. And I'm sure most, if not all of our listeners, know about making a quote unquote deal with the devil. But Amanda, this is a source material that I think you might be fairly familiar with. Yes, I was lucky enough to study abroad in London,

where I took four classes, two of which involved seeing plays every week. And so for 12 weeks in

London, I saw two plays a week, sometimes more, and spent a lot of time with someone I met on

YouTube. And that was my semester abroad. I saw a production of

Dr. Faustus at the Globe Theater involving Arthur Darville, who was then playing the,

uh, companion to Karen Gillen's, or the boyfriend to Karen Gillen's companion in Dr. Who,

which was incredibly cool and fun, stood like five feet from the stage, saw Arthur D'Royville sweat a lot.

And I really love this play.

And I am so stoked that we get to talk about it on Spirits.

Was he playing Dr. Faustis in that?

He was playing Mephistopheles, my favorite belagored bureaucratic devil, who the whole play is like,

please don't do this. And Faustis is like,

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