Fausto

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe worked on Faust for 60 years of his life. What makes a person dedicate 60 years of their life to a task? What did Goethe want with this disproportionate project? Save humanity from its inexorable, tragic, fateful destiny; full of interjections, mysteries, shocks? What absolute quest Goethe? What can we learn from him?
Many things: the wonder of the world, its multiplicity, its richness; from macro to micro and vice versa; of the ineluctable fertility that opposes the beginning to the end, as if death were glued to action and desire; as if we were (re)born from this revisited Trojan war: to kill the opponent is to possess him, to love him and know him, to eat him to honor him and to guarantee possession of his qualities.
Will we always live off the annihilation, subjugation, colonization of another?
It is an unbearable idea and yet we continue; Goethe would continue for another 60 years if he could.
And finally, the revelation.
That there is no other possibility than that of progress exploding in our hands, like booby-trapped devices: pagers, cell phones, walkie-talkies, solar panels; several crashes, in a plot of simultaneous explosions, which reduces us to the insignificant condition of naked and scared people, just like a highly successful television series, only without spectators, or exotic scenery, since we are all naked and scared.

ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Text: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Director: Carlos J. Pessoa
Dramaturgy: Cláudia Madeira
Scenography: Herlandson Duarte
Costume designer: Miss Suzie
Sound and video operation: Jorge Oliveira
Cast: André Pardal, Ana Lúcia Palminha, Nidia Cardoso
Photography and video: Vitorino Coragem
Communication: José Grilo
Design: Sara Kurash
Production Director: Raquel Matos
Executive Production: Rita Soares and Luis Puto

Production Teatro da Garagem
Support Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior
Financing Direção Geral das Artes, Governo de Portugal | Ministério da Cultura

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