Word: woyzeck
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...Werner Herzog. The director of "Woyzeck" spoke at the HFA this winter...
...Ibsen. The American Repatory Theater production of "The Wild Duck" was the yummy cake under the overrated icing to this year's strong season. Other fine performances included "Man and Superman," "Woyzeck" and "The King's Stag...
Despite these problems, much of Woyzeck is striking and visually transfixing. A scene at the circus has a Barker (D'metruius Conley-Williams) preaching of double-natures, un-idealized reason and the sand dust and slime of man. A drunkard's monologue of earthly evil and the futile existence of man blends the tragic and the absurd. A dance-hall dream of Marie and a Drum Major, complete with droning music, torments Woyzeck and his remembrances...
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...
More confused than challenging, the ART's production evokes a vision of Woyzeck's town that is at some times starkly realistic and at others ephemeral or dreamlike. As the play draws to a climax, the dissonant sounds and effects only increase with the fervency of the mood. At one point, the soldier, his sanity deteriorating, marches off-stage to the musical theme of Twentieth Century Fox. Sadly, this exit seems altogether too appropriate for the tone of the performance...