inFaust – Projecte Ingenu

Inspired on J. W. Goethe’s Faust

#CreaciónIngenua — #ClásicosEnCanal

Synopsis

On the day of his birthday, the old Faust, finding no meaning to his life, tries to commit suicide but he is not capable. An advertisement on the network changes everything. By the hand of Mephistopheles, he enters a world created from his most intimate desires. Here he can be and he can have whatever he wants. But everything has a cost and Faust must sign the pact again and again… with the devil?

About the show

How many times have you sold your soul to the devil? How many times has desire irrationally moved you because the price was too affordable? How many times have you let yourself be dazzled by a pair of flashy sneakers, forgetting who made them and how? How many coffee pods have you used ignoring where they would end up? How many privacy policies have you accepted without having read them? What percentage of your life is mortgaged, by whom and for what? How much and which sex have you consumed? When and for what love have you paid?

A little more than two centuries ago, Goethe used the myth of Doctor Faust to reflect on the modern world born before him. The world changed after the very first days of capitalism and the German author reflected through his great character: if we could do anything, what would we want? Who would we become?

Who or what is Mephistopheles today? Why do we constantly give up on the real cost of our desires? What makes us look for shortcuts while giving away the pleasure of the long road? Why do we make the dream cheaper? What would we not dare? Faust, who is he? Are we all him?

Marc Chornet Artells

enPlatea

"In this sense, the direction of Marc Chornet Artells ensures that all and many elements have a place and match perfectly with the scenery of Laura Clos« Closca », the lighting of David Bofarull, the spectacular projection design of Alfonso Ferri and Pol Queralt's sound space. And everything works in unison."

–Fernando Solla

enPlatea

"It is wonderful to enter a room with the highest expectations and forget about them as the representation progresses. Not for non-compliance but for its cancellation in favor of something totally unexpected and that captures and channels all our attention and propels us towards a sensory universe in which the dramatic art can do everything and get it."

–Fernando Solla

enPlatea

"We are facing a company whose title to title has been catching us and, in some way, configuring, urging and modifying our preferences and priorities when we approach any theatrical function."

–Fernando Solla

enPlatea

"With this function, Projecte Ingenu opens up to another type of poetics in a proposal that has also suppressed the use of commas. [...] In this case there will be an unrealistic use of the word. A surrealism that we will accompany in this portion of "a journey that goes a little further from everyday reality."

–enPlatea

Elisa Díez

"Projecte Ingenu is a company that works its assemblies as if they were handicrafts and that shows in each one of them. Although they escape each time from the limits and take a step further, the Ingenu continue betting on caring until the minimal detail inFAUST is its assembly where spectacularity acquires a new meaning and in which its aesthetic leaves naturalism and immerses itself in the most European avant-garde."

–Butaques i somnis

Iolanda G. Madariaga

"The most iconic and popular episodes of the novel are recognized, with a very contemporary timelessness."

–Recomana.cat

Recomana.cat

"«inFAUST» is a visual spectacle that plays with the sound, the stage setting, the lighting, the movement, the voice and a wardrobe between contemporary and animated or illustrated series design that changes the hell of the original for modern hell which is, for many addicted slavery addicts, infinite seduction of new technologies."

–Andreu Sotorra

Recomana.cat

"Projecte Igenu has essentialized its language. It is discarding the more obvious and betting on the most suggestive. Dare to enter unknown places."

–Jordi Bordes

Performed by

Toni Guillemat
Neus Pàmies
Cristina Arenas
Martí Salvat
Roser Tapias

About

Show in Catalan or Spanish
A production by Teatre Akadèmia in co-production with Projecte Ingenu
Show premiered on 19th October 2018 at Teatre Akadèmia, Barcelona

creative team

Original idea and scene direction: Marc Chornet Artells
Adaptation and dramaturgy: Anna Maria Ricart (inspired on Goethe’s Faust)
Set Up design: Laura Clos (Closca)
Costume design: Marta Rafa
Lighting design: David Bofarull
Audiovisual design: Alfonso Ferri
Original music and arrangements: Neus Pàmies
Stage assistant: Sergi Corbera
Photography: David Ruano
Trainee: Aina Planagumà
Video: OMEN
Executive production: Pol Cornudella