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...George Buechner's Wozzeck, directed by John A. Lithgow '67, is the expressionistic treatment of the private life of a soldier. The 19th-century work will be produced in early November...
Woyzeclc, by Georg Buechner, has cast a deepening shadow across 130 years and a thousand writers. It is as if this young, 19th century German with a mind like burning phosphorus and a heart like an open grave had had an apocalyptic dramatic vision of the 20th century, with its human holocausts, scientific arrogance, uncertain values, private hysteria and despair. Out of this vision, he made a sketchbook of hell-a melancholy intuition, perhaps, of the death that was already seeping through his own veins to claim him at 23. The appeal to self-pitying modern men is that Buechner...
...plot is not the point. Buechner was concerned with destiny, not destinations, and Woyzeck, sensitively played by Heinrich Schweiger, is a lyric dirge to bruised humanity. The play is as durable and compassionate as the line that might have served as its epigraph: "Every man is an abyss, and you get dizzy looking into...
...Georg Buechner was an angry young German of the early 19th century. He was 21 when he wrote this play, and only 23 when he died. If he were alive today, he would presumably burn his draft card and spare the drama...
Danton's Death is Buechner's stab at planting Hamlet in the middle of the French Revolution. Compared with Buechner's hero, Shakespeare's is a prince of action and a man of few words. Buechner's straw man is a compulsive blabbertongue who would rather rant than fight. The play is a petrified forest of conflicting themes. It can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism or a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both...