Woyzeck’s Head. Third Wall Returns to Arts Court.
Woyzeck’s Head based on the text by Georg Büchner, adapted by and directed by James Richardson
A Third Wall Theatre Production.
As the title suggests, this interpretation by Third Wall director James Richardson of Woyzeck, Georg Büchner’s unfinished 1837 masterwork about a man who is going mad, focuses on the protagonist’s head, the seat of memory, emotion and intellect. Gone, or at least relegated to the almost-tangential, are the class and other external social concerns that are usually showcased when the original work is performed. That focus is a good and a bad thing.