The naked Woyzeck: Hungarian productions take classics by Buchner and Brecht to new extremes. (Postmark Hungary). (theater review)
American Theatre, September, 2002 by O'Quinn, Jim
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Woyzeck holds a special place in the Hungarian theatre repertoire. In a society subjected for more than 30 years to Soviet regimentation and repression, it makes sense that Georg Buchner's brilliant, fragmentary proletarian outcry--left unfinished when its precocious 23-year-old author died of typhus in a rented room in Zurich in 1837--would strike a resonant chord. Something in the stark tale of Buchner's naive, doomed antihero--his subjugation to military bullying, his victimization at the whims of the powerful--cuts close to the quick in the Hungarian sensibility.
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