Few theatrical performances come with a warning about wearing comfortable shoes. But not many live shows are quite like Life And Trust. This wildly ambitious immersive performance unfolds over three hours across six floors inside what was once a Wall Street office building. It features dozens of characters and more than 200 scenes—but don't expect to see them all.
The main narrative is a retelling of Faust set on the eve of the 1929 stock market crash: An aging financier who made a literal deal with the devil in his youth discovers that the contract is being called in. But the capacious and sprawling show contains multiple stories: Characters and references from other deal-with-the-devil tales, including Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,also appear.
