REVIEW: Woyzeck in Winter
Woyzeck is, among other things, a play about an impoverished soldier preyed upon by a mad scientist. It’s appropriate, then, that this new take on Buchner’s classic play is presided over by an equivalent mad scientist of sorts — director Conall Morrison — who has diced and spliced the play together with songs from Schubert’s famous cycle Die Winterreise. The result — a deliriously overwrought Woyzeckstein — finds its feet very effectively.
The show is brimming with beautiful music and some fine performances. There is, nevertheless, a nagging sense that it never quite ascends the scale of its own ambition.
