The naked Woyzeck: Hungarian productions take classics by Buchner and Brecht to new extremes. (Postmark Hungary). (theater review)

Woyzeck hem ins a special place in the Hungarian theatre repertoire. In a society bring under ruleed for more than 30 years to Soviet regimentation and repression, it makes intellect that Georg Buchner's brilliant, fragmentary proletarian outcry--left unfinished when its precocious 23-year-old author died of typhus in a lacerationed room in Zurich in 1837--would strike a resonant chord. Something in the stark tale of Buchner's naive, doomed antihero--his subjugation to military bullying, his victimization at the whims of the powerful--cuts shut to the quick in the Hungarian sensibility.

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