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...first truly modern play when it first appeared on stage, some eighty years after it had been written in 1836. The last work Buchner worked on before he died of influenza at twenty-three, the collection of vignettes was performed to great success in 1913 in Germany. The stark Woyzeck diagnosed and condemned the nation's sick soul at a time characterized by psychoanalysis and introspection...
Furthermore, individual scenes in Woyzeck are able to stand alone as poignant and stark meditations. At one point, a white tiled box rises up from the stage to serve as an examination room for Woyzeck's tormenting doctor scientist. This room, which later serves as a gas-chamber for the doomed orderly, stands out in the production. The revolutionary doctor (Will LeBow) delights and disturbs in his twisted dealings with his misbehaving subject Woyzeck...
...this man running toward me with a Bible in one hand and stark naked and full of blood...
...STARK, 40; LONDON; photographer, former actress
Before Sarah Ferguson captured Prince Andrew's heart and the tabloid headlines, there was American-born Koo Stark, a onetime soft-porn film starlet whose liaison with the prince sparked media madness in 1982. After Andrew returned from the Falklands war, the two were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly...