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A new translation of the B chner play considered the forerunner of most modern drama.

The multi-award-winning Jack Thorne breathes new life into Georg B chner's Woyzeck, one of the most extraordinary plays ever written.

In a new translation and adaptation by Nicholas Rudall. Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality leads him to a tragic end... Read Full Overview

Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly modern play.

Drama / Characters: 14 male 4 female

Sacrificed to powers larger than himself Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him but his deeper morality leads him to a tragic end.

Woyzeck By Georg B chner Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality leads him to a tragic end. We are delighted to publish... Read Full Overview

Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly modern play.

Written shortly before his death at the age of twenty three, Georg B chner's Woyzeck is often described as the first 'modern' play. It tells the story of a poor soldier manipulated and abused by his 'superiors', turned into a specimen for cruel experimentation at the hands of... Read Full Overview

Woyzeck By Georg B chner Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality leads him to a tragic end. We are delighted to publish... Read Full Overview

Georg B?chner is regularly considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck"
was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of its
basic story, there are complex themes of human motivation,
victimisation, guilt, class structure, and the meaning... Read Full Overview

Georg B chner: Woyzeck Entstanden: 1836/37. Erstdruck: In: Neue Freie Presse (Wien), Nov. 1875. Urauff hrung am 8.11.1913 in M nchen. Siehe auch die redaktionelle Vorbemerkung am Beginn des Werktextes. Vollst ndige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von... Read Full Overview