Faust in a spooky warren

[Bink]

I have just read in this morning's Metro a rave review of this National Theatre/Punchdrunk "promenade" Faust , which happens in a blacked-out abandoned warehouse - you follow the action (dress up warm). "Promenade" is hardly accurate - can't think of exciting enough word for what would be.

Have got tickets at once. There are still quite a few available for Nov/Dec but I imagine it might get trickier once word gets around.

Sounds fabulous Bink. My dsis did something similar in the old St Pancras Hotel and said it was unforgettable!

Have now seen this, & though I wasn't maybe quite so conclusively blown away by it as this lady was I think it was utterly fascinating and completely meets what I need for good theatre, which is Big Ideas Cleverly Done.

So that you can distinguish b/w actors and audience in the labyrinthine gloom, all the audience have to wear a mask that makes them look like an abduction-alien. There is something incredibly spookily appropriate about all these people, wearing these masks, crowding round a couple of actors, or even just one bloke on his own muttering to himself, jostling to listen in like a chorus of lost souls.

Not at all recommended for claustrophobes & easily-freaked people. There is a Miss Havisham/Sleeping Beauty's spinning wheel room that is such an accurate incarnation of bad dream it cannot really be put into words.

And on the other hand there's some of the best lindy-hopping footwork I've seen.