Woyzeck
Concluded
©Ava Kiaie
A story of abuse of power, a drama of jealousy, an account of growing folly. With Woyzeck – which was written between 1836 and 1837 and was left incomplete – Büchner explored the psychology of relationships of strength between individuals. In Servati’s staging, the words of the author become a universal reflection on the mechanisms which are repeated in every era and every place.
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Teatro Strehler
The staging of Woyzeck see the continuation of the theatrical dialogue between the Piccolo Teatro and Teheran, a rapport which began seven years ago.
Having graduated in directing in 2009 at the prestigious Tarbiat Modarres University in Teheran, the city where he lives, Reza Servati has been staging shows since 2003 when, at the young age of twenty, he founded his company, Max Theatre Group.
With Woyzech, Reza Servati won the 2013 Grand Prize for best show and the Special Jury Award for Directing at the 30th Fadjr Festival in Teheran. In the story of the soldier Franz Woyzeck., the lover of Marie and the father of her son, a victim of everyone - his fellow soldiers, his doctor, the woman who betrays him, and his own, creeping madness - Servati reads a timeless metaphor of the cage in which the individual is enclosed, like a guinea pig, destined to run back and forth without stopping: “Reiteration - explains Servati - is the sentence that the Gods inflict upon us. Woyzeck moves from one side of a ramp to the other, trying desperately to find himself and his love among the cruel people who surround him, and this cycle lasts for all eternity”.
The staging of Woyzeck see the continuation of the theatrical dialogue between the Piccolo Teatro and Teheran, a rapport which began seven years ago.
Having graduated in directing in 2009 at the prestigious Tarbiat Modarres University in Teheran, the city where he lives, Reza Servati has been staging shows since 2003 when, at the young age of twenty, he founded his company, Max Theatre Group.
With Woyzech, Reza Servati won the 2013 Grand Prize for best show and the Special Jury Award for Directing at the 30th Fadjr Festival in Teheran. In the story of the soldier Franz Woyzeck., the lover of Marie and the father of her son, a victim of everyone - his fellow soldiers, his doctor, the woman who betrays him, and his own, creeping madness - Servati reads a timeless metaphor of the cage in which the individual is enclosed, like a guinea pig, destined to run back and forth without stopping: “Reiteration - explains Servati - is the sentence that the Gods inflict upon us. Woyzeck moves from one side of a ramp to the other, trying desperately to find himself and his love among the cruel people who surround him, and this cycle lasts for all eternity”.
Credits
Piccolo Teatro Strehler
from18 to 19 May 2017
Reza Servati – Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner
directed by Reza Servati
sets by Reza Servati
lighting by Reza Behjat
music and suond effects by Bamdad Afshar
make up by Sarah Eskandari
with Morteza Esmaeil Kashi, Pantea Panahiha, Makan Ashgvari, Babak Hamidian, Mehdi Koushki, Hamidreza Allahbakhsh, Asghar Piran, Aryan Mazlumzadeh, Saeed Ghaffari
a Max Theatre Group, Teheran production
a show in farsi with italian surtitles
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