William Kentridge

William Kentridge/ Handspring Puppet Company

Woyzeck On The Highveld adapted from Georg Büchner

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Woyzeck On The Highveld
adapted from Georg Büchner
Direction, William Kentridge
Direction assistant, Luc de Wit
Stage design, Adrian Kohler, William Kentridge
Animation, William Kentridge
Video, Thabo Nel
Sound, Simon Mahoney
Stage Manager Steve Koch
Tour Manager, Wesley France
Coordination Tour, Aïcha Boutella/Quaternaire
Actors, Mncedisi Baldwin Shabangu
Puppets, Nkosinathi Joachim Gaar, Jason Potgieter, Hamilton Dhlamini, Busisiwe Penelope Zokufa, Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones
Music, Steve Cooks, Edward Jordan
Sound, Wilbert Schoubel
Cello, Clara Hooyberg
Piano, accordion,  Alfred Makgalemele, Isaac van Graan
Puppet Design, Adrian Kohler
Light, Mannie Manim, Wesley France
Costumes, Hazel Maree
Production of The Standard Bank National Arts Festival ; The Johannesburg City Council ; The Foundation for the Creative Arts ; Ambassade d’Allemagne ; The Department of National Education and Art Bureau/Munich
Corealisation Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Guy de Wouters
With the support  of l’Onda
Tour:
RomaEuropa,Rome, Septembre 30 Octobre 2
La Comète-Scène Nationale, Châlons en Champagne, Octobre 6
Dialog Festival, Wroclaw, Octobre 10 and 11
Temporada Alta Festival, Gérone, Octobre 16 and 17
Teatro Alhambra, Grenade, Novembre 14 and 15
Teatro Canovas, Malaga, Novembre 18
Teatro Central, Séville, Novembre 20 and 21
Bonlieu-Scène nationale, Annecy, Novembre 25 to 27
La Filature-Scène Nationale, Mulhouse,Decembre 1 to 3
TNS-Théâtre National de Strasbourg,Decembre 8 to 20

In this version of Büchner’s unfinished play, Woyzeck becomes a migrant worker in the plateau of Highveld near Johannesburg, roaming through desolate industrial settings. This revival of a 1992 collaboration between William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company gives its full force to Büchner’s story of a poor soldier crushed by forces he cannot control.

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