Barbican, LondonGeorg Büchner's soldier returns, but not quite as we know him, in the Handspring Puppet Company's version, which transposes the 19th-century drama of alienation and savage poetry to 1956 Johannesburg. The soldier, Woyzeck, becomes a black migrant worker; he submits himself to the indignities of being a guinea pig for the Doctor, at the beck and call of a local bigwig, and is eaten up with jealousy wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM on September 7, 2011