FaustX

Commissioned by Kunstfest Weimar, FaustX will premiere in August 2025, before touring to Paris, Luxembourg and Frankfurt/Oder in October this year.

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​‘Where is the meaning of our lives? We comfort ourselves with our little triumphs: railways, aeroplanes, rockets, these gadgets of progress that blast us into the future with ever-wilder violence… but does our knowledge really enrich us? Or does it merely pull us away, ever farther away from the mythic world which was once our home by right of birth…’ C.G. Jung

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​In this second part of Goethe’s magnum opus, we follow the ever-restless Dr Faust, on his rollercoaster adventure through a spectrum of political and mythical realities in his insatiable quest for meaning, truth and power at any cost. Bound to Mephisto by his pact to forfeit his soul if he ever finds inner-peace, Faust meddles in the economics of the global south, plays war games on the peripheries of the EU, and implements grand plans of technological expansion to master nature… with tragic consequences. A surreal drama of human aspiration, temptation, and unchecked ambition, as relevant in today’s fragmenting world as it was when first written. Performed with iconoclastic relish by a troupe of 8 masked South African performers. 

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