Woyceck is tough. I didn’t study it at A Level and have since managed to get through a career in the theatre without having read or seen it once (hangs head in shame). So ahead of my CPD session with We Teach Drama I sat down to read it for the first time.
And it’s tough. On first impression, it seems to behave more like poetry than narrative – rich, distant, complex. The story itself is written so simply that it has this sort of mythic quality. It’s violent, tragic and morally challenging. There are many strange characters and a palpable feeling of threat throughout.
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