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A play in two acts.
* adapted from Georg Buchner's Unfinished play 'Woyzeck'
Franz Woyzeck, a soldier at middle of the 19th Century, is always short
of money so he makes a little pay by shaving his Captain and by allowing
the army doctor, a budding mad scientist to perform experiments on Franz.
Marie, a young woman who has had Franz's child, is always out of money
and lives on a slum street with other poor people. Bored with poverty,
Marie goes out drinking with a Drum Major who is attracted to her. Woyzeck,
feeling betrayed, confronts the Drum Major who beats Franz badly. In the
end, Franz, feeling defeated by life, wills his few possessions to his
army buddy, Andres and then murders Marie and drowns himself, leaving
their child orphaned. Nobody in the town seems to care as they dance and
sing about the incident.
20 Characters: Franz, Marie, Andres, the Captain, the Doctor,
the Drum Major, an Innkeeper, a Defrocked Priest, a Prostitute, a Circus
Horse, a Ringmaster, Soldiers and Townspeople. |