Woyzeck

Première 24. januar 2022, Velika gledališka dvorana UL AGRFT
Running time 1 hour 40 minutes. No intermission. 

Director Žiga Hren
Translator Mojca Kranjc 
Dramaturg Helena Šukljan
Costume designer Claudi Sovrè
Set designer Maruša Mali
Lighting designer Domen Lušin
Sound designer Davor Lončar Petrovič
Choreographer Lara Ekar Grlj
Creator of masks Katarina Planinc
Producer Mija Špiler

Mentors
Stage acting and theatre directing prof. Branko Šturbej, Janusz Kica
Dramaturgy doc. dr. Blaž Lukan, prof. dr. Tomaž Toporišič
Language and speech izr. prof. dr. Katarina Podbevšek
Set design prof. mag. Jasna Vastl
Costume design prof. Janja Korun, doc. mag. Tina Kolenik

Cast
Woyzeck Jure Rajšp 
Marie Julita Kropec 
Andres Nejc Jezernik 
Captain Mak Tepšić 
Doctor Maks Dakskobler 
Drum Major Domen Novak

Woyzeck is the last unfinished drama by the German playwright, writer, revolutionary and political activist Georg Büchner (1813–1837). In his short life, he intertwined politics, aesthetics and science with his insights, which he gained through rigorous observation of society. The "fair copy", or a fragment of the drama based on the true story of the wigmaker Johann Christian Woyzeck, who killed his mistress Marie out of jealousy in 1821, still provokes many interpretations of the human psyche, especially the question of mental incompetence and often contradictory interpersonal relationships. The case of the convicted Woyzeck served Büchner only as a starting point for the theatricalisation of "the most insignificant life" from the social bottom. Thus, the author charted the direction of later naturalism and verism, into which the promiscuous and proactively sexual character of the murdered Maria – who can hardly be considered a moral example of the 19th-century patriarchal society – was imprinted. Carla Lowrey Drost claims that it was through Marie that Büchner expressed his deterministic view of humankind. At the same time, according to Robert Gillett’s thesis, he wanted to correct the tradition of the schematic tragedy of women in general. The world depicted in Woyzeck is (especially from the female perspective) emptied, dark and cruel – can there be anything good in such a world?