FAUST spielen

Wilde & Vogel [Leipzig], Christoph Bochdansky [Vienna]

Goethe. Faust. Fifth act, open field. The worry arises of leading Faust to his end in his old age. On the threshold between life and death, the memories of the urge to explore and the devil's pact, lustfulness and the torment of love, the flight of fancy and the witches' sabbath soon become a crude joke, soon a travesty, soon a gripping theater of images. Woman, science and the world: all claims to ownership are reduced to absurdity in Fausten's death. The happy vision of a free future on conquered ground: a burst bag filled with dust. Will anything remain after the debacle?

And what about us? Do we still know what a soul is? And what poor devil will give us anything for it when it is no longer worth anything to us?

Musically challenged and illuminated by Charlotte Wilde's live sound installations, the puppeteers Christoph Bochdansky and Michael Vogel will put on their old hats with legendary Punch and Judy courage and go right over the edge of the brim.