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‘Woyzeck’

The Iguana Teatre company stages this adaptation Catalan of German playwright Georg Büchner (1813-1837). Woyzeck  is the play on which he was working when typhus killed the author at the age of 23, so it was left unfinished, fragmented into four manuscripts without a precise order and lack of an ending.

It is his most famous drama, which many compare to Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is based on real events that took place in the city of Leipzig, the stabbing of his wife by a barber out of jealousy. The case aroused great controversy, since the subject was suffering from hallucinations and a social inferiority complex that led to question whether his death sentence was just.

Büchner, who studied medicine in Zurich, takes this event as a starting point to raise philosophical issues such as biological and social determinism or the eternal loneliness of man.

This proposal of Iguana Teatre has as playwright and is directed by Pere Fullana and is interpreted by Carles Moliner and Aina Cortes. Taking as a basis the vibrantly poetic language of Büchner, they create a show in tone of black and grotesque cabaret.

Woyzeck  is part of the Catalan program Illescena fair, organized by the Association of Performing Arts of the Balearic Islands with the aim of presenting theatrical production outside of the islands.