Word: woyzeck
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...forbid Woyzeck should be Tim Mayer's last show at Harvard. Still, if it is, he's ended his extra-curricular career with a hit, and made the first season of the Harvard Summer School Players all the more memorable...
Making its U.S. debut in Manhattan, Munich's Bavarian State Theater performs Woyzeck in German (simultaneous translations available) with brilliant fidelity of tone-stark, spare and stinging. Into a landscape of damnation walks Woyzeck, a simple soldier, poor, puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions. To eke out his army pay he becomes a guinea pig for a medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne...
...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...