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The book explores the intersection of theater and significant historical events, specifically focusing on the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each chapter features an original dramatic work paired with a critical essay, highlighting the importance of performance in understanding these complex issues and their implications for the future. This unique approach aims to engage a broader audience in critical discussions surrounding history and its ongoing relevance.

"Hedges balances new perspectives on such well-known works as Thomas Mann's Dr Faustus and Jack Kerouac's Dr Sax with discussions of previously overlooked twentieth-century expressions of the Faust myth, including American film noir, the Faust films of Stan Brakhage, Révolutions pour plus d'un Faust by Hélène Cixous, István Szabó's Mephisto, Frank Wedekind's Franziska, and Else Lasker-Schüler's post-Holocaust drama Ichundich. She evaluates musical compositions - Hanns Eisler's Faust libretto, the opera Votre Faust by Henri Pousseur and Michel Butor, and Alfred Schnittke's Faust cantata - as well as works of fiction and drama in French and German, many of which have heretofore never been discussed outside narrow disciplinary confines." --book jacket.