FAUST MITEM 16

Faust is one of the greatest myths of Western-European cultural history. The hero of Goethe’s drama is the archetype of modern man. Silviu Purcărete’s interpretation of the story is extremely topical; from the point of view of Faust, a man questioning grand cultural myths, Purcărete recreates mankind’s heroic and grotesque adventures in search of the ultimate truth as a journey full of contradictions and doubt. The extraordinariness of the production of Faust by the Radu Stanca National Theatre lies in the complexity of the direction: Purcărete guides us to the borderline between earth and hell, offering a visceral experience in which we witness space multiplied with the help of projections, fireworks, live rock music, and a profound original score. The production follows the main motives of Goethe’s work: Faust’s pact with the devil, his love for Gretchen, the ball in hell, Walpurgis Night, and Faust’s glorification. Faust has been playing for eight years in Sibiu, and it has been invited to a number of international festivals, first to the Goethe Festival in Frankfurt. In 2009, actress Ofelia Popii received the prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival for the role of Mephistopheles. “I would sell my soul if I could see this production of Faust once again, wrote rewiever Euam Ferguson in The Observer in 2009.
 

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