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Woyzeck
26 February - 15 March 2008A unique take on Georg Buchner’s classic play Woyzeck, using Forum Theatre to explore issues surrounding mental health. What would you do if someone around you started showing the same schizophrenic symptoms as Soldier Woyzeck did? This is the question that the audience at the Southwark Playhouse was asked every night, giving rise to passionate interventions and debates.
A grant from the Wellcome Trust allowed the company to work with a team of mental health experts, helping the actors reflect on the way mental health issues were portrayed. The run of the play was accompanied by a mini-season of events including a reading of Buchner’s play Lenz and a public debate on the stigmatisation of mental illness.
Cast: Simeon Moore, Aoife McMahon , Adna Sablijic, Neil Boorman, Jake Goode, Patrick Onione,Terry O'Leary , Bitsy (the Rat).
‘I’d not thought about Woyzeck as a play about mental health before. Very poignant and clear depiction of isolation of mental health illness, despite being surrounded by people’
Audience member
- Director: Adrian Jackson
- Assistant Director: Jacqui Honess-Martin
- Designer: Fred Meller
- Lighting: Ian Saunders
- Company Stage Manager: Louie Whitemore
- Deputy Stage Manager: Rachel Tiley
- Producer: Roy Luxford
“A fascinating critique of the way in which mental illness stigmatises, and of how a differing perception of facts and events can separate an individual from mainstream society. (...)The production is ragged and rough, but its approach is not unsuited to Büchner's fractured writing, and its threadbare aesthetic is poignantly unlovely. Raw but rewarding.”
Sam Marlowe, The Times, 7 March 2008.
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