It may be down to the ambitious nature of what must, at first, have seemed a fairly innocuous dance piece that Faust appeared on the tarmac surface of Bhasvic’s lower car park than on an actual stage elevating this performance from the ground.

You needed to arrive early to afford yourself a decent view of the 1920s Prohibition-era bar room set, with the audience fanning out in a crouching semi-circle from the “stage” and those unable to sit down standing about halfway back.

It was this solid surface, though, that made the performance all the more impressive as the dancers of Bad Taste Company went from jiving and jumping to tumbling, flipping and rolling across it.

The drinking and debauchery enacted here contributed to a reworking of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s play, which dances with the Devil in two senses; the deity was afforded a role and some of the company’s movements looked precarious.

With towering flames and tussles inside a ring of fire, you started to see why it made sense to keep this performance rooted to a non-combustible surface.

A similarly lively, popular performance took place the following night in Jubilee Square, proving that Brighton Festival continues to bring big ideas which are well-grounded.