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The young Goethe brought his first draft of "Faust" with him to Weimar in 1775. The final version of "The Tragedy, Part I" was completed in 1808. In this telling, Heinrich Faust is a tormented scientist, who despite having attained all worldly knowledge, cannot fathom "what holds the world together in its innermost core". In desperation he conjures an earthly spirit to rent asunder the gates of his intellect through the emotional power of the heart. Yet Faust must eventually acknowledge the limits of human comprehension. He recklessly casts himself into the world and believes to have found nature’s purity in the young Margarethe, with whom he falls in love. Mephisto accompanies Faust, pulls the strings and plays the matchmaker. But ultimately, Faust’s amorous escapade is merely the path to overcoming his inner self. The relationship tears Gretchen apart; she murders their love child, for which she is thrown into the dungeon.
Aside from the wager between God and the Devil and the pact between Faust and Mephisto, "Urfaust" focuses largely on the tragic love story of an intellectual with a young, innocent girl. The text does not elevate the human drama between heaven and hell, as the complete tragedy conveys today. Rather, it can be interpreted as more of a commentary on a seemingly enlightened society which sentences a desperate girl to death as a child murderer.
Director Tobias Wellemeyer re-examines the text, which is so inextricably connected to the DNT, and presents his vision of the work to Weimar’s audience for the first time.
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Disneys DER KÖNIG DER LÖWEN - Das Musical
The English Theatre of Hamburg (4/26 - 12/22) | ||
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Disney's Musical Tarzan
Stage Palladium Theater Stuttgart (11/8 - 6/30) | ||
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Lobby Hero
The English Theatre of Hamburg (5/2 - 6/4)
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Tanz Der Vampire
Stage Operettenhaus (11/8 - 9/8) | ||
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Lizard Boy - A new Musical by Justin Huertas
The English Theatre of Hamburg (4/22 - 6/22)
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Le Cage Aux Folles
Komische Oper Berlin (3/30 - 5/18) | ||
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Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
theater in medias res (3/17 - 12/31)
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