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...Separation, directed by Matthew J. Weinstock ’05, used nudity because the script called for it. Faust’s script does not include nudity, but the adaptation written and directed by Clint J. Froehlich ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, employed six nude extras in the beginning and at the end of the show...
Besides this textual aspect, Froehlich also focused on music for his adaptation. It was from this part of his adaptation that the idea to use nude actors in the show first occurred...
...nudity in the end first came to me as an aesthetic choice,” he said. “I thought it would be interesting to have a cast of nude actors not in the rest of the show to come on stage with Faust and I think it was originally an aesthetically motivated decision...
These “normative structures” that Faust and Gretchen wrestle with in the play were a main factor in Froehlich’s decision to use nude actors. “My main goal was this sort of unsubtle revealing of these structures through pop performances and bold images to inspire the audience to make changes in their lives and in the world around them,” he said...
Aoife Spillane-Hinks ’06, who played Mephistopheles in the production, and who did not appear nude in the play, felt the nudity was integral to the play in the bold statement it made to the audience...