Theater An Der Ruhr + Glossy Pain - WOYZECK

Marie and Margret are best friends. They share a flat and their lives, even when Franz Woyzeck, their neighbour, joins them and falls in love with Marie. Marie and Woyzeck: this is a love that brings two very different people together and then shifts, almost imperceptibly, until it ends in brute force. Marie, Margret and Woyzeck - the story of a web of relationships that interrogates our ideas of love, friendship and care.

This rewrite of Woyzeck focuses on the everyday lives and lifeworlds of young people, posing questions that are already inherent in Büchner's work: What makes men become perpetrators? What ideas of relationships do we live by? Is a language other than violence possible?

A young team around director Katharina Stoll from the Berlin theatre collective Glossy Pain reinvents the classic with a view to the female characters in the drama - rich in imagery, music and play.