From 8 October at the Main Stage - Chiller Building The performance of the same name, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, directed by Aris Biniaris, returns for the second year, on 8 October, with renewed distribution, to take us once again on a journey into the subconscious of one of the most fascinating characters of Western literature. An adventurous psychic journey into the inexhaustible aspects of a hero who is a timeless symbol of human exploration, moral dilemmas and existential deadlock. Faust's story is brought to the present day in a performance - an immersion into all those instincts, emotions and physical pleasures that the modern version of the hero sacrifices on the altar of the spirit. Faust gets in touch with the psychotherapeutic process in an agonizing descent into his hitherto unexplored unconscious. This psychic journey, however, has "satanic" implications. The hidden forces of the human soul, the unconscious desires and repressed instincts, the fears and guilt that reside in his psychic underbelly, challenge him to an unprecedented struggle with this shadowy world. And it is precisely these shadows, this despised part of existence, that will lead him to the greatest ideal and religious experience: love. Only he will be able to bring light against every aspect of himself that he feels "dirty", every guilt and every desire he feels repelled. Only he will confront him with his greatest challenge yet: life itself. From Goethe to Marlowe and de Sade, from Freud to Jung, Ari Biniaris' Faust is a performance of intense musicality about the fierce conflict between body and spirit, experience and knowledge, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and man's agonizing struggle to find the meaning of existence and redemption. Faust's story is brought into the present day in a performance - an immersion into all those instincts, emotions and physical pleasures that the modern version of the hero sacrifices on the altar of the spirit. Faust gets in touch with the psychotherapeutic process in an agonizing descent into his hitherto unexplored unconscious. This psychic journey, however, has 'satanic' implications. The hidden forces of the human soul, the unconscious desires and repressed instincts, the fears and guilt that inhabit his psychic underbelly, challenge him to an unprecedented struggle with this shadowy world. And it is precisely these shadows, this despised part of existence, that will lead him to the greatest ideal and religious experience: love. Only he will be able to bring light against every aspect of himself that he feels "dirty", every guilt and every desire he feels repelled. Only he will confront him with his greatest challenge yet: life itself. From Goethe to Marlowe and de Sade, and from Freud to Jung, Ari Biniaris's Faust is a journey into the subconscious of one of the most fascinating characters in Western literature. An adventurous psychic journey, a wandering through the inexhaustible facets of a hero who is still today a symbol of human exploration, of moral dilemmas, of existential deadlock. --- 2nd year An adventurous psychic journey into the inexhaustible facets of one of Western literature's most fascinating characters