Seitenwechsel - Die company im Viertel: Doktor Faustus für Zwei

In the organizer's words:

Doctor Faustus for two

after Christopher Marlowe

About the play

The production of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" focused on the comedic side of the tragedy as a play within a play: clowns, who must once have seen better times, presented the play as a garish arch of images with anarchically imaginative scenes, poetic monologues and surprisingly psychologically clever dialogues full of sarcastic humor. Doctor Faustus is played by the confident director of the circus troupe, Mephisto is a dazzling creature, sometimes a brutal disciplinarian, sometimes a seductive siren.

"Doctor Faustus for Two" focuses entirely on the changing and ambivalent relationship between the two protagonists, Doctor Faustus and Mephisto. Doctor Faustus is a highly educated man in all the known sciences, but he wants more. He is obsessed with the idea of breaking through the manageable boundaries that life as a master of any of the known sciences can offer him. A pact with Mephisto promises him knowledge, power, fame, wealth and the highest fulfillment of lust. In exchange, he pledges his soul to the devil, whose existence he does not believe in anyway. The two engage in a game full of erotic attraction and a relentless struggle for power in this relationship in which each is at the mercy of the other. But at the zenith of his ambition and the achievement of all his desires and goals, Faustus' time ends and he must fulfill the diabolical contract: Faustus' crystal-clear nihilism and enthusiastic denial of God result in fear of death, inner emptiness and the realization that "Where we are, there is hell."

Cast

Translation: Rainer Iwersen.
Director: Johanna Schall.
Dramaturgy: Grit van Dyk.
Stage/costumes: Heike Neugebauer.
Music: Maria Hinze.
Assistant director: Martina Lübbing.
With: Petra-Janina Schultz, Markus Seuß.

Performance language: German

Duration: 1:00 without intermission

Price information:

normal: 25 € reduced: 19 €