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South African director, playwright, and installation artist Brett Bailey, whose work has graced major theatre festivals worldwide but is presented at the Grand Théâtre for the first time, reimagines Goethe’s Faust II through the fractured lens of 21st-century geopolitics. As 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Goethe’s arrival in Weimar, where he wrote his masterpiece exploring power, politics, and human ambition, and the world feels as fragmented as ever, this new rendition could not be timelier.
Bailey’s free adaptation of Faust II begins where Faust I ends. Bound by a pact with Mephisto to forfeit his soul if he ever finds inner peace, Dr Faust meddles in the economies of the Global South and plays war games on the fringes of the EU. He implements grand schemes for technological expansion to master nature, society, and – like a tech oligarch – even distant planets.
Feeling like a vagabond in a world where he has no home, Faust is forever on the move, driven by an insatiable hunger for intense experiences and, ultimately, power – often with tragic results…
With an irreverent troupe of masked South African performers, Bailey crafts a visually striking, surreal, and haunting tale of human striving, temptation, and relentless drive – one that resonates as powerfully today as when it was first written.
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Directed by Brett Bailey. The performance is given in English and German, with French and English surtitles.
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Grand Theatre of the City of Luxembourg
1 Bd Robert Schuman
2525 Ville-Haute Luxembourg
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