Faust – Eine Odyssee durch Zeit und Raum

This is the ambitious one. Where the house's other Faust evenings pick an angle, this pair go at the entire thing — the work Goethe called very serious jokes, which by the theatre's count runs to more than 160 roles and some 7,500 verses and which he worked at for the better part of sixty years, keeping it to himself while he lived. Two people play all of it, with music, on the principle the house states outright: minimal means, maximum effect. Whether that is bravado or the only sane way to stage the second part in a vaulted room with a hundred seats, you can decide on the night.