Faust: A Love Story

Part of the 30th Next Wave Festival www.BAM.org/Faust Dec 12—14, 7:30pm; Dec 15, 2 & 7:30pm; Dec 16, 3pm Season ticket price*: $17.50—60 Full price*: $25—75 Inspired by Goethe Vesturport Theatre and Reykjavík City Theatre Directed by Gisli Örn Gardarsson “…amongst the world’s most dazzling troupes.” —The Guardian (UK) Iceland’s Vesturport Theatre returns to BAM with a spectacle of slapstick, horror, and aerial circus daredevilry for an inventive reimagining of Goethe’s Faust. Music by longtime collaborators Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is harnessed to Vesturport’s trademark acrobatics—including a high-flying act performed above a vast trampoline net stretched over the audience. Having succumbed to the temptation offered by the demon Mephisto, the once-great actor Johann, retired and at the height of despair, finally pursues the happiness that has long eluded him by embarking on the performance of a lifetime. BAM Harvey Theater Run time: 2hrs (with intermission) *Prices subject to change after Aug 26