It can also be considered a Noh adaptation as the production is heavily influenced by the company's research into Japanese Noh, especially its manipulation of time and space, and its use of the Chorus as both participant and observer in the action.

The cast has been limited to two: the main characters of Faustus and Mephistophilis, and the performance text is a radically stripped-down version of the 1604 "A-text" with passages from the 1616 "B-text".

The "comic scenes" have been removed and unneccesary characters deleted. This allows the production to intensify the focus on the existence of Evil and man's vain belief in his ability to be immune to its destruction. The Evil that Faustus invokes is not presented here as an alluring and mysterious power but as a force of desecration and profanity.

The Chorus' last lines of the play are given to Mephistophilis:

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo’s laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.
Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,
Only to wonder at unlawful things,
Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits
To practice more than heavenly power permits.