Faust

Faust was a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inspired by an adventure he once had with the Eighth Doctor, in which a Bacchanite bartender tried to use wine at a Viennese tavern to create illusions of personal sorrow to capture his patrons. (PROSE: The Sorrows of Vienna)
One of the delirious, yet revealing thoughts which passed through the Seventh Doctor's mind as he fell through a gap into interstitial time was "I am Faust, come from a race of Fausts who sold our souls for thirteen long lives while others drop like mayflies", although at other points in the vision he saw himself as the Devil himself or as "the light and the resurrection". (PROSE: Falls the Shadow)
Faust was mentioned by the Fourth Doctor when describing the odds of all the animals in the London Zoo trying to escape on the same morning. (PROSE: Stanley)
In 1993, Bernice Summerfield read from James Rafferty's copy of Faust, which was written in the original German. She mentally translated the line "Die Kunst ist lang, and kurz ist unser Leben" to "Art is long, and our life is short." (PROSE: The Dimension Riders)
Ilmatar and the European Contemporary Opera Company did a tour of Faust in the late 2000s in which Ilmatar played Lucifer. The final performance was held at the Cardiff Bay Millennium Hall. (AUDIO: Dinner and a Show)
Category:Plays from the real world