Faust II – Game Over

Faust II is the play German theatres approach with ropes and oxygen: the part Goethe kept back, the one with the emperor and the paper money and Helen of Troy, which most people who love the first part have never sat through. A young company in a railway station has gone at it anyway, and the added title tells you the reading — Game Over, which is either about Faust's wager running out or about the world he leaves behind, and works for both.