The play will also be staged on Saturday May 20 and Sunday, May 30 at the Academy of Arts at 19.00
TIRANA, May 25 – A troupe of international actors performed on Thursday the premiere of Woyzeck, a play written by Germany’s Georg Buchner. The play directed by Stefan Neugebauer brought together actors from Germany, France, Italy and Albania at the big hall of the Academy of Arts.
Actors performed in foreign languages with subtitles in Albanian.
Albania’s Irgen Cela and Suela Cerri, Italy’s Gerolamo Fancellu and Germany’s Frantz Helmer starred in the play.
The play will also be staged on Saturday May 20 and Sunday, May 30 at the Academy of Arts at 19.00.
Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Buchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously “finished” by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre repertory.
Woyzeck was first published in 1879 in a heavily reworked version by Karl Emil Franzos. It received its first performance on November 8 1913 at the Residenztheater, Munich.
Woyzeck deals with the dehumanising effects of doctors and the military on a young man’s life. It is often seen as ‘working class’ tragedy, though it can also be viewed as having another dimension, portraying the ‘perennial tragedy of human jealousy’
