Faust – eine Tragödie

In the organizer's words:

stellwerk - junges Theater (Weimar) - Guest performance as part of AUGENBLICK MAL! The festival of theater for young audiences with German and English subtitles

For many people, Goethe's Faust is the epitome of a theater classic. Hardly any other work has been so often attributed with being ingenious, profound and always topical. Hardly anyone gets through their German lessons without reading about the scholar Faust and his deal with Mephisto. There is hardly a German stage where the so-called "Gretchen question" has not been asked and the young woman of the same name has not been made the murderer of her child. The poodle's core was last revealed on the stellwerk stage 20 years ago. So it was high time to revisit the absolute all-time favorite of theater history and see whether it can withstand the questions of the times and the perspective of a new generation.

Just as Faust gets involved with the devil, an ensemble of young people make a deal with Goethe's masterpiece and are seduced, instructed and betrayed by him. The stage becomes a multimedia study. From here - just like Faust did - the world is scrutinized and examined to see whether there is still something that holds it together at its core. Driven by the need to finally understand what makes Goethe's Faust such a powerful classic, a performance between road trip and search for meaning begins, complete with poodles, witches and great love.

A production by TANZKOMPLIZEN as part of the Offensive Tanz für junges Publikum Berlin, in cooperation with Cie Art-Track (F) and with the kind support of the Institut français, the French Ministry of Culture/DGCA and the Centre Français de Berlin.