{"id":110,"date":"2009-10-07T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.arts.ubc.ca\/wordpressmu\/theatre\/?p=110"},"modified":"2009-10-07T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T23:10:16","slug":"directors-notes-for-mk-woyzeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/2009\/10\/07\/directors-notes-for-mk-woyzeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Director’s Notes for MK Woyzeck"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I may have taken the extreme liberty of adapting Georg B\u00fcchner\u2019s timeless masterpiece, Woyzeck<\/a>, I remain well aware that no words of mine could ever come close to expressing the anguished ruminations at the play\u2019s core as well as those penned by the author himself in an oft-quoted letter to his fianc\u00e9e:<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt as though utterly crushed by the hideous fatalism of history. \u00a0I find in human nature a terrible sameness, in human circumstances an ineluctable violence vouchsafed to all and to none. \u00a0Individuals but froth on the waves, greatness a mere coincidence, the mastery of geniuses a dance of puppets, a ridiculous struggle against an iron law that can at best be understood but never mastered\u2026 \u2019Must\u2019 is one of those words by which mankind was damned from the very beginning. \u00a0The saying, \u2018It must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh\u2019, is horrifying. \u00a0What is it in man that lies, murders, steals?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Theatre<\/a>
Theatre at UBC's production of MK Woyzeck <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was over fifteen years ago that the inspired and inspiring teaching of UBC\u2019s own distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Dr. Errol Durbach, first ignited in me a burning obsession with B\u00fcchner\u2019s Woyzeck that has continued to smolder to this day. \u00a0It is to him that I dedicate my work on this production.<\/p>\n

Tom Scholte<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor
\nUBC Department of Theatre and Film<\/p>\n

Note: MK Woyzeck runs in the Frederic Wood Theatre at 7:30 nightly until Saturday October 10th. Call 604.822.2678 for tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I may have taken the extreme liberty of adapting Georg B\u00fcchner\u2019s timeless masterpiece, Woyzeck, I remain well aware that no words of mine could ever come close to expressing the anguished ruminations at the play\u2019s core as well as those penned by the author himself in an oft-quoted letter to his fianc\u00e9e: \u201cI felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9105,233,6635],"tags":[9112,233,9114,6635],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-theatre","category-education","category-theatre","tag-drama","tag-education","tag-georg-buchner","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}