In 1938, Gertrude Stein wrote ?Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights? while tinkering with her notion of the continuous present.

A tore for modernists and post modernists for the past 40 years ? a response to the changing landscape of her homeland, Stein left a prairie town in the United States and returned in the thirties to an industrialized country on the cusp of a technological revolution

With Bathe Me, Gerturede Stein?s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, Doorika will create a technological landscape with the aesthetics of the early western pioneer ? the wilds of America tamed by a mediated environment. ?Bathe Me? is inspired by the new electronic frontiersmen of the internet, the crib notes of the Unabomber, spy technology, media manipulation and the anonymity that marks electronic arts and interactive media, ?Bathe Me? swoons into the arms of this new promised land ? a modern retelling of the man who sold his soul for the light and youth. Doorika has been granted the rights to work with ?Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights? by the Estate of Gertrude Stein. Doorika is sponsored in part by a grant from the Illinois Art Council, a state agency, and by a Community Arts Assistance program grant from the City of Chicago Department of cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts council Access Program.

The Opening night performance will be a benefit for Doorika and will include cocktails and tango by Orchestra Atypica.