"Faust" in a dangerous alliance with goodness – Pages

Faust is dead, but in the concert hall "The House" lives his legacy. A woman's head has been heard from the basement for 24 years and the survivors must finally feel the disaster. "But the debt remains Fausts," says someone. The situation quickly degenerates: "I would cut the kiss of this bastard and plant it in his fucking boiler."

When Jens Ohlin and Hannes Meidal get the Faust Mite in power, about a scholar who makes an alliance with the devil, the two central characters are gone. Or: they stay, but as comfortable emotional accessories for an afterlife who do not want to think about their own debt.

"Easy to go out"

The easiest way is to get away from the evil, because by definition, it is good. It is urgent to feel just indignant, a feeling that can justify one's own evil actions, "said director Jens Ohlin.

This time, therefore, it seems dangerous to be the alliance of good. Screenwriter and actor Hannes Meidal nods.

In all major historical disasters, it is easy to postpone exorbitant spending afterwards, while officials are often convinced that they have done something right. Evil can sneak into any position and I can grab myself: "Why did not I see it from the beginning?" It's a horror movie experience.

However, the need to justify should not concern our position in front of others, but also towards ourselves. Hannes Meidal tells us that Albert Speer, who was responsible for the Nazi war industry, spent the rest of his life declaring himself oblivious to the Holocaust. He even tried to convert to Judaism.

Success with "Hamlet"

The series trial highlights the dangers of firmly believing in one's goodness: "Where can you not lead one who thinks evil is always somewhere else?" And this is not the first time that the duo is endowed with a classic of responsibility. Last year, they had the success of "Hamlet", awarded the Thali Prize and the Swedish Theater Critics Award. However, they offer no ethical compromises that they have been forced to succeed themselves.

But when we started playing in the '90s, there was a genetics, a greater romance and mystification of the art, says Jens Ohlin.

… that can still be cried and placed in a romantic skimmer, Meidal continues. The drama is a very hierarchical place, designed for such compromises.

But each attitude can also be hidden behind. "At that time, in the 90s," says Jens Ohlin.

"House in hell"

Hannes Meidal laughs.

As Valentin says in the play: "Today, it should go to hell!"

Themes such as the complaint of a woman that no one claims, and if the environment can be held to be responsible for the harm of an individual, direct thoughts to the metoo movement. On November 8, there was a year since the scene, the rebellion revolted. Meidal and Ohlin do not want to be too specific, but say that the present does most of the play.

For me, it's the most interesting prospect right after. I love everything I've done and not done. It's me, without being the least morally upright. It's always easier to justify later, says Hannes Meidal.

"Faust" will be created on November 15th at Elverket in Stockholm.