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h o i s w o y z e c k ? p e r f o r m a n c e / p r e m i e r e 2 0 0 2 |
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Performance 'WHO IS WOYZECK?' questions the subject of culturally dislocated person: a person who grew up in one surrounding but for a quite a while lives in another, that is, a person whose cultural history collides with his cultural present. |
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Woyzeck may be regarded as a representative of the society in Transition,
an Eastern European who collides with new social languages. He may be regarded
as person who is certainly emotionally different: perhaps culturally deprived
or economically marginalized. WHO IS WOYZECK? is conceived as 2 independent sessions by 2 distinct trios that are developed simultaneously and performed consecutively onstage. Both sessions are based upon the same source and comparative questions. |
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is Woyzeck in late capitalism? Who is Woyzeck in post communism? Who is Woyzeck in terms of political correctness? How does any society give itself the right to impose its own model as the only one with validity? |
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point of departure is Buchner's text: 'Woyzeck'. We compare what can be
derived theatrically / performatively from a formal text and question the
relation of performance and political theatre in contemporary society. Therefore,
Buchner's manuscripts are practiced within 'reading session'. This mode
releases the energy of the moment, where the very act of reading is significant
and where the reading is the action itself. Two distinct units clothed in ADIDAS outfit and consisting of 3 protagonists [2 men and 1 woman] perform each session. In such a triangle, Buchner's characters are reduced and then multiplied in a performer. The 1st unit casts 3 performers from Western, while the other consists of 3 performers from Eastern Europe. |
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| Performance WHO IS WOYZECK? is developed as cross-border partnership project - as Co-production with eastern European partners. In its final outcome - these 2 sessions confront 2 different experiences of the performers and 2 different modes of practice. So, the performance actualizes and underlines the oppositions: West vs. East, Late capitalism vs. post-communism, performativity vs. theatricality, etc. | |