Woyzeck

Georg Büchner died at the age of 23, in 1837, without finishing Woyzeck, one of modern theatre’s inaugural plays. It is an unfinished, fragmentary text, and thus a field open to countless opportunities. Here we have the auéééu company’s version: a show inspired by Büchner’s famous character – a victim and an antihero, a proletarian and a madman, a “poor devil” who carries the burden of a world in rapid change – and by the tableaux vivants of Sergei Parajanov’s film The Colour of Pomegranates (1969). Working in collaboration with film-maker Manuela Viegas, sculptor Fernando Roussado, illustrator Filipe Andrade and lighting designer Daniel Worm d’Assumpção, the auéééu company brings to the stage “a laboratory where humanoid machines act in accordance with an artificial order of intelligence that is not ruled by ethical values”. In a dystopian environment, these figures “operate solely in the name of progress”. “And what lies behind all that?”, asks Woyzeck. Maybe the answer can be found here.