Toto Funds the Arts and rafiki are staging George Büchner’s Woyzeck, directed by Anmol Vellani in June.  The play will open at Adishakti in Pondicherry and then play at Ranga Shankara in July. There are positions open for a few interesting walk-on roles, both male and female. For appointments, email: anu.sengupta@gmail.com

About the Play

Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck is one the most celebrated plays in the German theatre repertory and has aroused much curiosity and fascination since it was first written in the 1830s. Woyzeck is the first play in Western dramatic literature to politicize tragedy and feature a commoner as a tragic figure.

Franz Woyzeck is a peasant-soldier whose fate is sealed as much by his own actions as by the forces of oppression in 19th century Prussian society.  The play explores lust, infidelity, brutality, depravity and murder with a radical vision and compact intensity unequalled in the history of drama.

Drawing inspiration from different translations and adaptations of the play, a new script of Woyzeck has been specially created for this production.