Reader Reviews
Faust (General, Outer London)
Back to Show Details| Score | Comment | Date |
 | Astonishing, there's simply no other word to describe this production. I've seen 'Faust' five times already with one final visit to come (and I *never* see things more than once). It still haunts my dreams. - PaulH | 13 Mar 07 |
| fantastic! - 134.225.1.162) | 01 Feb 07 |
| AMAZING - 205.228.74.13) | 29 Dec 06 |
| I would thoroughly recommend this production. Someone bought me tickets and I had seen the reviews, so I had absolutely no idea what to expect. Initially I wandered around fascinated but trying to work out what I was seeing, by the end I was starting to piece it together. Now, the morning after, I am recommending it to everyone I meet and I have bought tickets to go again. I have been captured. - 195.93.21.105) | 22 Dec 06 |
| I was taken as a gift and had no idea what to expect. I loved it but you have to work for yuor entertainment. It is disorientating. Spooky. David Lynch meets Pina Bausch. Maddening. Original. Exciting. Well worth the price of a ticket. God knows how many dull plays I've endured in the past 10 years. This isn't one of them. Go. Go. Go. - 81.6.253.15) | 27 Nov 06 |
| In the previous review I should have said....more a series of tableaux. Apologies for sloppy typing! - 172.200.28.227) | 18 Nov 06 |
| Five stars! come on that's far too generous. I went along expecting a promenade performance instead it was a more a serious of tableau. It definitely needs more work and far better structuring. I think the NT involvement was based upon the success of an earlier production. Mr Hytner certainly should have had a look in ealier. It clearly needs help to turn an interesting idea into a fully realised piece of theatre. I felt I'd drifted through an arty version of a Disneyworld ride - Thunder Mountain perhaps - but with out the exilleration. Sure it has it's moments and donning the mask at the begining helped - not just in identifying the audience from the actors but also giving us, the viewer/voyeur, a sense of detachment from the scenes whilst at the same time being in the thick of it. That aspect I felt was original and could have helped to develope the piece. But even so it's still a shambles. A cast of actors wandering around in search of a play....? And at twenty five quid a pop! - The London Dungeon is only sixteen quid - come off it! - 172.200.28.227) | 18 Nov 06 |
| Astonishing and magical. So much detail, an exhilarating, terrifying, essential theatrical experience. - 86.140.165.9) | 17 Nov 06 |
| Totally extraordinary show. The most amazing designs and the most commited, brave and energetic cast in London. I found myself in the midst of scenes that will haunt me for a long time to come. Punchdrunk are robbed if they don't win that evening standard best newcomer award. - 82.45.250.31) | 16 Nov 06 |
| A memorable experience - and isn't that what theatre is about? - 86.143.155.216) | 15 Nov 06 |
| Four stars for the show but only two for the audience, many of whom ruin it by giggling, talking and running around after the actors, completely destroying the atmosphere and requiring you to escape to a less populated spot. It's more extensive than The Firebird Ball, and some of the same 'staging' ideas re-emerge, but not quite so captivating or disorientating. Maybe nothing's ever as good as your first time at a Punchdrunk show! Still, it's a logistical and technical marvel and at times chilling and thrilling, though I can't say it made too much sense. Well worth the trip to Docklandss, though, and thanks to the RNT for continuing to support such innovative companies. - 217.28.34.132) | 02 Nov 06 |
| An astonishing adventure on five floors of a disused warehouse. The set - a fifties environment throughout the entire building - is a tour de force in itself. Everyone wears a mask and circulates alone in a sinister, dark environment. You won't ever see the whole show (even though they run it twice in three hours) because little strands of it run hither and yon around the building. Whatever you do, thoug, don't miss Hell right at the end. A lot of people do, apparently, and their souls will forever rot in heaven. - 82.34.197.191) | 25 Oct 06 |
