In an Australian exclusive season and the headline performance for 2016, Sydney Festival presents Thalia Theatre Hamburg’s stage adaptation and musical retelling of George Büchner’s Woyzeck.
The ending left open to interpretation after the author’s early death in 1837, Woyzeck tells the tale of a marginalised soldier in society who sacrifices both his body and sanity to medical experimentation, spiralling into a murderous rage resulting in a tragic outcome for Woyzeck’s wife, Marie.
Dealing with murder, obsession and jealousy, the original text has now been reinvented as a raw and chilling 21st Century musical where actors are forced to navigate a prison-like set comprised of an oversized grid of steel and rope stretched across the stage.
Modulating between lurid fever dream and gripping social drama, this adaptation of Woyzeck is directed by Jette Steckel and is a stunning choice for German theatre company Thalia Theatre Hamburg’s long-awaited Australian debut. (ES)
Jan 7–12, 8pm. Carriageworks Bay 17, 245 Wilson Street (corner of Codrington Street), Eveleigh. $71-$89. Tickets & info: sydneyfestival.org.au/woyzeck or 1300 856 876.
BY EMILY SHEN
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