Faust
Faust is a story based on an ancient legend of a scholar who yearns so much for just a moment of happiness that he makes a pact with the devil.
It is also a reflection on the different stages of human life – Goethe started working on this story in his youth and continued into old age. Lastly, it is a mirror held up to European culture as a whole and one of its greatest masterpieces.
Successive generations have gazed at themselves in this mirror for two hundred years. What do today's creators see in it, having grown up at the turn of the century and facing the future with the baggage of their own experiences?
Rehearsal for Faust – Damian Kwiatkowski, Henryk Simon, Paweł Brzeszcz. Photo by Marta Ankiersztejn
direction: Wojciech Faruga
dramaturgy: Julia Holewińska
set and light design, costume: Katarzyna Borkowska
music: Teoniki Rożynek
choreography, stage movement: Bartłomiej Gąsior
technological projects and execution of elements of decoration and props: technical studios of the National Theatre
The play contains excerpts from Hymn of the Pearl, a passage of the apocryphal Acts of Thomas (trans. Czesław Miłosz).
Please mind that in some scenes during the show appear incense smoke and cigarette smoke, as well as loud gunshots.
Cast
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Cezary Kosiński
Faust
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Paweł Brzeszcz
Mephistopheles 5, Wagner
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Aleksandra Justa
Mephistopheles 3
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Mateusz Kmiecik
Mephistopheles 4
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Damian Kwiatkowski
Mephistopheles 1 (guest actor)
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Sławomira Łozińska
Mephistopheles 2
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Wiesław Cichy
The Lord, The Treasurer, Chrion
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Małgorzata Kożuchowska
Spirit, Beautiful Helen
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Henryk Simon
Homunculus, The Chamberlain, Euphorion, Student
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Natalia Kawałek
The Witch, Will O' The Wisp, Panthalis (guest actor)
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Hanna Wojtóściszyn
Margaret, A Phorkyad
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Anna Grycewicz
Martha, The Astrologer
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Adam Szczyszczaj
Valentine, The Emperor
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Paulina Korthals
Margaret's Mother, Leader of the Chorus
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Piotr Piksa
Lynceus, Bishop
Production team
- director's assistant: Maciej Jaszczyński
- lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski, Krzysztof Łukasz Stefan
- sound technicians: Mariusz Maszewski, Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski
- stage manager: Katarzyna Kłosowska-Kobiałka
prompter: Anna Leszczyńska
Licence for this stage production was granted by the Society of Authors – ZAiKS.