Woyzeck Quartet
Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck performed by a reduced international cast of five, a post-punk band with an operatic approach and original music score inspired by Alban Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’ challenging the idea of United Europe.
Texts in performance: Georg Büchner’s ‘Woyzeck’, Angela Merkel’s speech on ‘Economy of the housekeeping’, Georg Büchner’s ‘The Messenger of Hessen’ (Der Hessische Landbote) etc.
Credits
Concept + Adaptation + Direction: Elli Papakonstantinou
Performers: Hendrik Arnst, Adrian Frieling (theremin), Argyris Xafis (electric guitar, harmonica, vocals), Fotini Papadodima (keyboards, vocals), Tilemachos Moussas (electric guitar, loops, efx)
Music Composition + Arrangements + Sound Design: Tilemachos Mousas
Translation: Koralia Sotiriadou
Set + Costume Design: Aristotelis Karananos, Alexandra Siafkou
Lighting Design: Alekos Anastasiou
Assistant to Director: Efi Revmata
Performances
Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2012: 12-14.07.2012
Peireos 260, Building E, Athens, Greece
Produced by:
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© Sissy Morfi
Video
Reviews
Papakonstantinou fearlessly explores the glaring and startling associations of the above connection…
Director Elli Papakonstantinou discerns a clear analogy between Woyzeck—the victim of those in power, the guinea pig of the educated elite—and contemporary Greece vis-à-vis the European troika, the guinea pig of Europe […]
Manolis Vamvounis | Mixtape | 15.07.2012
