Word: lachow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another weakness is that without the political context of the original play, the two journalists--who are two of the few main characters--have little reason to be in the drama at all. The cynical story-grubbing journalists (Nina Bernstein and Gregg Lachow) attempt to become more than stick-figure guides to the seamy side of Europe, but are uncomfortable on stage and rarely manage to tease a real character from the verse text...
...COULD ACCUSE Gregg Lachow and the other makers of Woyzeck of getting inadvertantly lost in mainstage space. They are in love with it. Stepping inside, the audience ventures almost shyly onto a vast Siberian wasteland, its cellophane spaces crackling with emptiness, its border indistinct. Mountains of some synthetic material rim the flatness of every available inch of the hall's acres of aisle and plank; throughout the production, unexpected portions of this flatness rise and fall, thrusting the landscape of events into strange non-Euclidean configurations. A friend of the production has advanced the hypothesis that Lachow conceived the whole...
Silences are Lachow's strong point, the currency which proves this is no amateur mess of enigma but a clearly thought out puzzle to decipher. The gaps in a script which at times seem one big gap do not interfere with the production's authoritative, screne flow towards a goal that, though a mystery to the watcher, clearly exists for those on stage. All but the most sophisticated audiences--say, those who have read Buchner and his theories and went to see Lachow's earlier Woyzeck on Exhibit at the Ex--may find themselves frustrated if they try to guess...
...astounding lighting design by Jon Monderer does more than any other one element to give Lachow's spaces their sinuous magic. Rimming a long swing that sweeps a child in and out of view, shining up through two rectangular-grills to denote barracks for Woyzeck and a comrade. Monderer's lights and shadows and hellish pink sunsets need no narrative to make them shocking. Now and then they steal the center of attention completely, and Woyzeck becomes a story told entirely in light, without words, an aural equivalent of the children's show Laserium. Words here do not tell, they...