Review
'Gray's representation of God sums up what makes this, another in a long list of Faust-inspired texts, worth a look. Gray's wry irreverence is in full and pungent flow. With a torture scene involving an episode of 'The Simpsons' and a speech interrupted by mobile phones, he achieves what he wants to by dragging Faust into the 21st century. It has lights and music and molls and liquor and, though it verges on the brassy cabaret side of things, in turning Faust the tragedy into Fleck the comedy, he succeeds in paying his own delirious, wholly un-Goethean tribute.' Scotland on Sunday
Product Description
The novelist Alasdair Gray was once known as a playwright. In 2007, he began writing a modern verse translation of Goethe's "Tragedy of Faust", and after the first act found the Devil lead the hero into a twenty-first century Goethe never imagined. This required a change of names, so the play is now "Fleck", a comedy.