Woyzeck: A Play

Award-winning playwright Neil LaBute’s powerful adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck embraces the glittering darkness of the play’s violent, erotic, inhumane world and uncompromisingly makes it his own.

Woyzeck’s girlfriend, Marie, by whom he’s fathered a child; Marie’s overpowering desire for the alluring Drum-Major; and the murderous outcome of this oppressive admixture of circumstances comprises one of the bleakest works of world literature. It is also considered by many to mark the be...