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What is surprising, is the ease with which the story is transplanted to the 1990's. The Faustus character, Peter Prideau, a Peabody Professor of Christian Morals over at the Divinity School, inadvertently discovers a demon while fiddling with new software called "Cybernectromantics." Desperate to see his deceased wife, Laura, once more, Prideau makes a deal with the demon, nicking his finger with the proffered Swiss army knife and bartering his soul for a meeting with his beloved...
Daniel Gerroll, as the uptight Prideau, turns in an adept, if not particularly memorable, performance. Christopher Martin, as the head demon, Alfredo Archangelo Sandiavolo, adequately invokes a devil's personna. Because of this, the first act flies by quite enjoyably...
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