A Mystifying Faustian Misfire

By Patrick Hurley

Circle X presents the world premiere of Liana and Ben, playing now at Atwater Village Theater. Calling itself a modern take on Goethe’s masterpiece Faust, this play only skims the surface of the complexities of man’s finite potential, and indeed gets completely lost in the scrambling of mythology and modernity, resulting in a somewhat incoherent hodgepodge of Wikipedia facts and first level dialogue. Read more