Woyzeck

The performance is not suitable for audiences under the age of 14

In our adaptation, Woyzeck—Büchner’s tragic protagonist—symbolizes the individual caught in today’s systems of militarization, technological surveillance, and gendered violence. Woyzeck’s tragic fate, both as a soldier and as a human test subject, resonates strongly in the context of the increasing militarization of the European Union, the reintroduction of mandatory military service, and public recruitment campaigns that reduce the body to a resource for geopolitical conflicts such as the war in Ukraine. While the military industry experiences a new boom, Woyzeck becomes the face of an anonymous army, his life reduced to biometric data, statistical figures on weapon efficiency, and his body turned into the subject of experimental medical treatments and technological innovations—from neural implants to stimulants designed to increase military performance.

But Woyzeck’s exploitation is not only military; it is also gendered. Through his relationship with Marie, the adaptation explores the issue of femicide. Marie, as the victim of Woyzeck’s jealousy and violence, embodies the reality of women whose lives are daily reduced to statistics in a society that systematically neglects them. The moral dilemma—what is one victim compared to thousands each day—becomes a provocation to the audience: is an individual tragedy enough to spark social change, or does it remain marginalized amid the general chaos of global conflicts?