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Tickets on Sale, Woyzeck at the CBT’s Carousel Theatre
KNOXVILLE –Georg Büchner’s drama, Woyzeck, will play in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Carousel Theatre October 7-27, 2010. It is sponsored by Stowers Machinery Corporation and the Mildred Haines and William Elijah Morris Lecture Endowment Fund. This production contains adult themes and is recommended for ages 14 and up. It runs for one hour. Patrons are encouraged to arrive early.
Büchner probably began writing the Woyzeck between June and September 1836. At the time of his early death in 1837, it was in a fragmentary state and has been variously posthumously “finished” by a variety of authors, editors and translators. The CBT’s production has been translated by Stefanie Ohnesorg, associate professor of German in UT’s Modern Foreign Language and Literature Department along with assistance from Noah Soltau, a doctoral candidate in UT’s Modern Foreign Language program.
Woyzeck is one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre repertory.
“When the play begins we enter simultaneously the inner landscape of Woyzeck and the real geography of the earth upon which he toils. Private Woyzeck’s world is the world of pain, suffering, inequality and gross social/economic injustice—the kind we have visited upon ourselves for centuries; this world is not altogether unfamiliar to us,” said director John Sipes.
A student of anatomy, biology and philosophy, Büchner seemed captivated by the question of “responsibility for one’s actions.”
“He placed this question at the very center of his play: are people truly in control of their actions and, therefore, responsible for them? Or, are their actions the result of either internal or external social forces from which they cannot flee? Are they victims of these influences? Or are they accountable for their actions?” Sipes said.
Director John Sipes is an associate professor in the UT Theatre Department. Before coming to UT, he was a director and resident movement director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 15 seasons. He also was a director and movement director for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival for 12 seasons, and served as the Festival’s Artistic Director for five seasons. Some recent directing credits include: Oedipus the King, Love’s Labour’s Lost, All My Sons (Clarence Brown Theatre), Henry VIII, King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), The Year of Magical Thinking, The Hollow (Milwaukee Rep), and mr. lear (Usine-C). He received his MFA in Acting from Indiana University. He is a certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique (AmSat), and a certified actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He also trained in Corporeal Mime with Etienne Decroux in Paris, and studied with Tadashi Suzuki in Japan. Later this year the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Ping Chong’s The Throne of Blood, for which John choreographed the fights, will transfer to the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the Next Wave Series.
Musical composer, Terry Silver-Alford, is a member of the UT Theatre faculty and teaches Musical Theatre Performance, Introduction to the Theatre and Acting. He has worked professionally in the theatre as a director, musical director, performer and composer at theaters across the country, including the California Theatre Center, Madison Repertory, Omaha Playhouse, Nebraska Caravan, Augusta Barn-Michigan, Fireside Theatre-Wisconsin, Light Opera of Oklahoma and the Clarence Brown Theatre. Terry has directed or musically directed over 100 productions and has created the scores for four original musicals and a variety of chamber and vocal music pieces. He earned his MFA in Directing from The University of Tennessee in 1984 and a Master of Music degree from Western Michigan University in piano and composition in 1991. His most recent CBT directing credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Guys and Dolls, Assassins, Parade, Recent Tragic Events and Into the Woods. CBT musical direction credits include Man of La Mancha, The Who’s Tommy, A Christmas Carol, A Year with Frog and Toad and Big River. Mr. Silver-Alford has also provided original music for CBT productions.
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