MEDIATHEK

Wozzeck – Georg Büchner was inspired to write Woyzeck by a controversial murder case. He was struck by the fate of a shy, bullied individual trying piteously to understand the meaning of his existence. The more harshly he meets with indifference and contempt in his surroundings, the more exposed are his passions. Reality in the play blends with visions. In the same way, on the border of reality and dream, the SKUTR directorial tandem stages this dramatic fragment (or, more precisely, 31 unordered scenes): they combine dance, acrobatics, movement, puppets, projection, text and music. The text fragments and things that are left unsaid are wrapped in distinctive artistic gestures, creating a strong artistic and poetic production, where fragile stage pictures complement Büchner’s raw text.



// Credits //

Direction SKUTR
Translation Ludvík Kundera
Dramaturgical assistance Klára Špičková
Set Jakub Kopecký
Costumes Simona Rybáková
Music Petr Kaláb

Cast:
Vojcek / Pavel Neškudla
Ondřej / Ondřej Rychlý
Drum major - Petr Konáš
Captain - Jan Holík
Doctor - Denny Ratajský
Professor - Michal Štěrba
Cryer - Marek Mikulášek
Marie / Andrea Mohylová
Markéta / Zuzana Ščerbová
Karel / Ondřej Vacke
Grandmother - Monika Švábová
Choir - Josef Nechutný, Miloslav Krejsa, Klára Krejsová, Kamila Šmejkalová

Premiere October 17th, 2015



// Author //

SKUTR – The dramaturgical and directorial tandem Lukáš Trpišovský and Martin Kukučka (1979) graduated from DAMU in 2004. Their graduation performance itself excited the interest of critics and a favourable response from audiences. After leaving DAMU they took up creative residence at Divadlo Archa, where they came up with several successful theatre projects. SKUTR productions travelled to festivals in Serbia, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, China and South Korea. The climax of SKUTR’S appearances abroad was a month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2008, where their production of The Weepers was nominated for a Total Theatre Award. Their production of Joke Killers, created together with Adéla Laštovková, then represented the Czech Republic at the Expo 2010 world exhibition in Shanghai. Recently they have become more and more interested in joining music together with theatre. Together with the members of the Berg orchestra they produced Heiner Goebbels’ Schwarz auf Weiss and a staged performance of Honegger’ s King David for the international festival Strings of Autumn. Their domain is multi-genre auteur projects, the combination of acrobatics, dance and physical theatre, martial arts techniques, design, sound, sight and various kinds of improvisations. They are inspired by theme, people, the specific place where a performance is created, elements of tradition, as well as by the latest information technology and its use, and new circus. Their teacher, Miloslav Klíma, has described the characteristic features of their work as a clear interest in the human lot, the interweaving of temporal and plot bands, the ludic principle and an interest in ceremonies and rituals. “The Scooters have a an excellent ability to highlight the hidden, they know how to search for contexts that are not apparent, and they often subject the human soul to an autopsy and examine it closely under a microscope,” Lenka Dombrovská has written. Their work often combines imagination, absurdity, playfulness and an emphasis on the romantic. The spoken word is complemented by marked physical action and metaphorical work with props.



// Press //

Most of the scenes are lit by a bluish light, as if it were all a bizarre dream. A painful, and sometimes even a beautiful dream. Marie (Andrea Mohylová) is also painfully beautiful, in a white fur, her long legs clad in white stockings. Noble and seductive. There is also a painfully beautiful moment when Woyzeck (Pavel Neškuda), a little shyly, a little playfully gives her a present: ballet pointe shoes. She totters in them, elegantly if uncertainly. There is also a painfully beautiful consolatory embrace between Markéta (Zuzana Ščerbová) and Ondřej (Ondřej Rychlý), in which they silently, motionlessly stay. (…) It is a thoroughly poetic evening, made up of strips of situations in which lonely people find a path to each other.
Lenka Šaldová, Divadelní noviny

The SKUTR duo has once again created an eccentric, poetic world, in which this time tenderness and fragility meet cruelty and harshness and clash with them on a knife blade. In Woyzeck the creators have replaced their usual romantic dreaminess with a stifling atmosphere, almost like a horror film, which does not lack perverse beauty and receptivity. Despite its distinctive [Proč Woyzek? Prosím sjednotit názvy WOZZEK / WOYZEK]visual and music elements, the production is not robbed of Büchner’s existential questions.
The success of the month according to Divadelní noviny



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