Woyzeck: The Human Experiment
A choose your own adventure version of Woyzeck where the audience voted on their phones to determine Woyzeck’s fate. The scenes of the play rearranged themselves in real time!
Woyzeck : The Human Experiment
The concept for this production was to create a choose your own adventure version of Woyzeck where the audience voted on their phones to determine Woyzeck’s fate. The idea being that Woyzeck is at the whims of larger systems outside of his control, and perhaps if the audience chose his destiny they might feel responsible for his predicament. The play itself was relatively unfinished at the time of the author’s death, and there is no agreed upon definitive order of scenes. In our version we used that to our advantage and allowed the audience to choose between three “tracks” that ultimately resulted in three possible endings: carnival, science and military.
Directing this production was a daunting endeavor and I learned a lot in the process. You can check out our interactive script here and see some production photos below.
