VESTURPORT
AND REYKJAVIK CITY
THEATRE (IS)
Water abounds in Gardarsson’s gleefully physical staging of Büchner’s masterpiece which is played out on an industrial set of gleaming pipes, green astroturf, and water-filled plexiglass tanks. With acrobatics, aerial ballets, and underwater sequences, the production’s hyper-athletic cast infuses this fragmented tragedy with unrestrained energy.
An excitedly physical staging of Georg Büchner’s tragic and fragmented play about a young man struggling to make the best from what life has dealt him. With haunting original music by cult rocker Nick Cave and Warren Ellis of the Bad Seeds, the music reflect and emphasize both Woyzeck's misery and the Drum Major's ascendancy.
An excitedly physical staging of Georg Büchner’s tragic and fragmented play about a young man struggling to make the best from what life has dealt him. With haunting original music by cult rocker Nick Cave and Warren Ellis of the Bad Seeds, the music reflect and emphasize both Woyzeck's misery and the Drum Major's ascendancy.
Gislí Örn Gardarsson
Vesturport (IS) and City Theatre Reykjavik (IS)
English
90 min., no intermissions
June 15th and 16th 2009, 20:00
The Concert Hall Aarhus,
Thomas Jensens Allé, 8000 Aarhus C
Thomas Jensens Allé, 8000 Aarhus C
Grotesque, brash and sometimes beautiful. Nick Cave’s blood-soaked lyricism and noisy trash-can blues lend a thrilling extra dimension.
The Times
This Icelandic version has overpowering visual and aural bravura, showing how Büchner‘s masterpiece can be turned into an assault on contemporary capitalism
The Guardian
Thrillingly imaginative theatre.
The Daily Telegraph
What makes this production special is the visual imagination of its director combined with the composers' haunting music.
The British Theatre Guide
The Times
This Icelandic version has overpowering visual and aural bravura, showing how Büchner‘s masterpiece can be turned into an assault on contemporary capitalism
The Guardian
Thrillingly imaginative theatre.
The Daily Telegraph
What makes this production special is the visual imagination of its director combined with the composers' haunting music.
The British Theatre Guide
ILT09 is supported by The Danish Arts Council, Aarhus Kommune, BG Fonden, TOYOTA-FONDEN, CZOO, Central Denmark Region, and the collaborators.