By Georg Büchner
Music and lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
WOYZECK | Tamás Keresztes |
MARIE | Adél Jordán |
CAPTAIN | Zoltán Bezerédi |
DOCTOR | Ernő Fekete |
TAMBOURMAYOR | Ervin Nagy |
ANDRES | Lehel Kovács |
CLOWN | Ferenc Elek |
WOMAN | Eszter Kiss |
Set designer: | Zsolt Khell |
Costumes: | Györgyi Szakács |
Lighting designer | Tamás Bányai |
Dramaturg | Annamária Radnai |
Stage presence | Csaba Horváth |
Music | György Philipp |
Assistant director: | György Tiwald |
Directed by: | Tamás Ascher |
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Original direction design and visual concept by Robert Wilson
Original performance text version by Ann-Christin Rommen and Wolfgang Wies
The latest adaptation of Büchner's Woyzeck in
Büchner’s original play is based on actual events took place in 1821 in
Karl Georg Büchner (1813–1837) wrote only three plays. However, his talent is generally held in great esteem: it is widely believed that, but for his early death, he might have attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. Woyzeck was first published only after his death, in 1879, without any particular success. The play found its way to popularity in after World War I.
Musician and performer Tom Waits created his own version of the original play in the last decade of the past century, the adaptation was premiered in 2000. "It deals with madness and children and obsession and murder - all the things that we care about and care about as much now as we did then. It's wild and sexy and curious and catches your imagination and makes you wonder about the people in it and it makes you reflect on your own life. So I guess those are all the things you want from a story and find them interesting 500 years later" – says Waits.