11 Performances
February 5-27, 2016
(inclusive Thu, Fri, Sat)
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Twenty-four years after striking a deal with the devil, a dramatist gathers colleagues and companions in a church sanctuary to witness his newest masterpiece: a phantasmagorical theatrical lamentation. This event is to be at once the pinnacle of his artistic career, the fulfillment of his diabolical bargain, and the surrender of his life.
Situated at a gateway between two contradictory eternities — infinite past and infinite future — and shadowed by the Angel of Death, the dramatist conjures forth from The Book of Faust a maddening rite of wisdom, pride, ego, innocence, transgression, and regret.
Is it a Black Mass or the last flickers of his consciousness?
And where and how will the Faustian impulse be revealed?
Devised by Akropolis Performance Lab, Ecce Faustus is a world premiere theatrical event inspired by the climactic chapters of Thomas Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus and the extraordinary chromatic compositions of Renaissance prince, murderer, and madman Carlo Gesualdo (with 5-part a cappella masterpieces sung live by the cast).
