Krzysztof Garbaczewski transposes Goethe's tragedy into virtual reality

High culture from the living room: Goethe's Faust II directly from Freiburg's theatre. Polish director Krzysztof Garbaczewski takes his audience into the infinite expanses of Goethe's universe.

Despite the closure of the stages, the Theatre Freiburg last week featured performances from virtual space. In a hybrid piece of analogue theatre and virtual reality, audience members descended with Faust to his mothers, travelled with Mephisto to his Christian ancestors and jumped with Helena from antiquity to the Middle Ages. An immersive experience in VR.

The Polish director Krzysztof Garbaczewski takes his audience into the infinite expanses of Goethe's universe: from nature to culture, from ancient Greek mythology to medieval literature, from the art of war, science and philosophy to capital and world-building, right into the Anthropocene. And he does not leave it at analogue space, but mixes classical staging with virtual reality.

Source: fudder