Director
The Beijing People’s Art Theatre International Festival
World premiere of the adaptation
Director
21 September 2015
Križanke
30 October 2015
Main Stage
Duration:
Director Tomaž Pandur again deals with one of the greatest European myths. Although the story of Faust is based on the medieval legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil, it actually expresses the feeling of alienation of modern man and his need to understand himself and the world in the wider context of the universe.
Using an alchemical process, Pandur transposes the Faustian legend into the intellectual and emotional atmosphere of today and constructs his own poetics and truth. Together with the eternal struggle against the all-pervading evil, he emphasises the infinite longing for everything inaccessible or unattainable: family, love, youth, beauty.
Entry into the realm of magic, into landscapes of cosmic spheres, momentarily enables Faust to live on and find fulfilment, love, authority, and power, but the blood-signed contract with Mephisto – or oneself – finally brings him back to his solitude, old age, and the brevity of life.
The Ljubljana Festival was founded by the municipality of Ljubljana:
Heinrich Faust
Mephistopheles
Madame Mephistopheles
Margaret
Branko Jordan
Valentine
Head of Cabinet
Robert Korošec, Filip Samobor, Žan Perko, Matic Lukšič
Cabinet
The Beijing People’s Art Theatre International Festival
15th Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogota, Colombia
Brno Theatre World 2016, Festival of Progressive Theatre
International festival of the Macedonian National Theatre (MNT-Fest)
2016 Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Main Hall of the ARKO Arts Theater, Seoul, South Korea
Interferences International Theatre Festival 2016, Cluj, Romania
43rd Festival Internacional Cervantino, Auditorio del Estado, Guanajuato, Mexico
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