Musical

Woyzeck

Robert Wilson · Tom Waits · Kathleen Brennan

A mentally disturbed man, a dehumanized society and a shattered relationship – two dead people and an orphan at the end. That is the material that Georg Büchner left behind 1837 in his fragmented play Woyzeck. The internationally renowned singer and composer Tom Waits, the songwriter Kathleen Brennan and the theatre artist Robert Wilson created in 2000 a gripping musical theatre out of Büchners scenes, filled with cynicism and a deep longing for happiness.

Waits and Brennan wrote for these scenes touching and unsettling songs somewhere between ballad, chanson and moritat, which sometimes take on the character of a slow love duet, sometimes that of a merciless chase. Manfred Weiß brings this play to the stage of Semper Zwei for the first time.

Play by Georg Büchner. Songs and lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
Concept by Robert Wilson. Version of the text by Ann-Christin Rommen and Wolfgang Wiens

Performed in German and English

Premiere
7. June 2024,

No further performances in the current season.

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