Rachel Cucheron & Katelyn Doyle in Woyzeck | Photo provided by the company
I’ve now experienced two adaptations of iconic 19th century German theatre-works within a month of each other. As with Soulpepper’s Spring Awakening, I’m not really familiar with Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck—a sad little allegory about some poor schmo who honours a bad faith social contract that ultimately destroys him—so can’t properly evaluate Holger Syme’s modern adaptation. This production by Claw Marks Theatre, though, does solidify for me how thoroughly those Germans were tapping into a whole laugh and feel bad mood with lyrical, tragi-comic scenarios of the Individual crushed by Society. Continue Reading