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Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story

Plowshare Farm presents the Anthropos Production:

"Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story"

Performed by actor Glen Williamson (Member, Actors' Equity Association)

Sunday, September 21, 2014

7:00 p.m.

here at Plowshare Farm, 32 Whitney Drive, Greenfield, NH

A man and a devil will battle it out at Plowshare Farm as professional New York actor Glen Williamson performs Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story. Plowshare Farm presents the Anthropos production of this one-man play about love, sex, murder, myth, magic, war, waves and a devil out of his depths.

Based on Goethe's theatrical masterpiece, Beat the Devil! will be performed, once only, on Sunday, September 21, 2014. The production comes to Plowshare Farm after its well-received appearance off Broadway at the United Solo Theatre Festival in New York.

Through drama and masterful storytelling, Williamson transforms Goethe's entire 24-hour-long, two-hundred-year-old classic drama into a 90-minute sometimes humerous and always exhilarating battle for the soul of a man searching for truth, satisfaction ... and a Goddess.

"Faust is the old legend of the guy who sold his soul to the Devil. But Goethe gave the bargain some surprising twists!" Williamson says. "Beat the Devil! is astonishingly pertinent to our time and our struggle to be human. It's about a guy who craves knowledge, beauty and meaning. But," Williamson adds, "when the devil tries to satisfy that craving, he finds out that's not so easy."

A short preview of this production (also known as The Tragedy of Mephistopheles) can be seen on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUBxvjjZilk

Glen Williamson, a founding member in New York City of the Actors' Ensemble and New Directions Theater, appeared in numerous productions with both companies, as well as with Walking the Dog Theater. He currently plays multiple roles in seven productions touring throughout North America and in Europe. His production company Anthropos (the Greek word for human being) seeks to uphold and celebrate what is truly human through the arts of theater and storytelling. Visit www.AnthroposTheater.com.

For more information, contact Plowshare Farm at 547-2547 or email us at psharefarm@yahoo.com.