Teatergesprekke: FaustX

In these conversations, Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees director and playwright Saartjie Botha speaks to theatre makers and artists who created the exciting productions at this year’s festival.

Brett Bailey is reinterpreting Goethe’s Faust II as a surreal, hard-hitting visual fable. It explores power, technology, and capitalism through a modern lens, depicting Dr. Faust as a tech tycoon meddling in global geopolitics and climate chaos. Bailey shares his insights and vision.