Word: woyzeck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...prominently heralded on the programs, perhaps to forestall suspicions of yet another strange modern experiment), he neglected to finish or polish his work, arrange the scenes in any particular order, or denote a beginning, middle or end. With no setting, no scene transitions and no unified plot. Woyzeck would seem--if it takes place anywhere--to unroll in the center of a cavernous emptiness. So it does at the Loeb, but this emptiness has substance and tangible form...