The devil's an angel who'd rather drag you to hell than admit he's wrong. Classic.
This musical play is based on the first act of Goethe's Faust. The angel Mephistopheles is condemned to fall from heaven after committing a sin. He is told that he can only return to heaven if he can bring a human being on the path of salvation. Mephistopheles refuses, believing that man is inherently evil. Vowing to drag a human down to hell along with him, he descends onto Earth and sets his sights on a man named Faust, an aged professor with no will to live.
Direction
Koike stages divine collapse with intimate, operatic precision.
Costume
Takarazuka spectacle: feathers, sequins, and existential despair.
Acting
Suzukaze's Mephistopheles—arrogant, wounded, impossibly charismatic.
Director
Shuichiro Koike
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Takarazuka's Moon Troupe specialized in 'otokoyaku'—women playing male leads—which queers this Faust/Mephisto dynamic in fascinating ways.
The 1989 production coincided with the Revue's 75th anniversary; this experimental staging of canonical Western literature was controversial among traditionalists.
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