Faustwork Mask Theatre

Quotes

"Tickles some sort of primal funny bone... hilariously hyperbolic..."
The New York Times

"Totally unique... I have never seen anything like it and neither have you. It is simply stunning."
Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes

"Inventive, magical, never less than completely absorbing..."
The Toronto Star

"Stunning... undefinable... somewhere between the sculptural fantasies of Mummenschanz and the precision mime of Marcel Marceau."
The Montreal Gazette

"FAUSTWORK IS A MUST-SEE... "
Seattle Times

"If you wish to find a window into your heart, this show will open it for you...they have the souls of poets."
The New Mexican, Santa Fe

"Achieves serious artistic ends... lovely and unpretentious... provocative... ."
The New York Times

"...had his audience laughing, thrilled, frightened and intrigued...sublimely tender...amazing... awesome hilarious...phenomenonal."
Oakland Tribune

"RUN - DON'T WALK!... enthralling, hilarious... extraordinary..."
Calgary Herald

Reviews

Talent, point of view make magic happen

From the Spoleto Festival, Post-Courier

"THE MASK MESSENGERS" is a two-person demonstration of how magic happens so easily in the theatre.

Easily, that is, if you have talent and a point of view, and Robert Faust and Timothy Latta have both, in spades.

Masks make a magical performance for all

Santa Fe, N.M. Faustwork Mask Theatre has a simple credo- that masks are magic. They proved it beyond a doubt Saturday evening at the Armory for the Arts Theatre with Faustwork In Concert. If you wish to find a window in your heart, this show will open it for you.
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Jack-of-all-trades Faust explores a world of masks

The Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California

Masks are usually thought of as something that hide and conceal.

For Rob Faust, the opposite is true.

Faust, a mask maker, actor, dancer and comic, proved it Friday during a 75-minute mock lecture-demonstration that had the audience laughing, thrilled, frightened and intrigued.