Directed by Tea Alagic
Written by Georg Büchner
Translated by Kristina Mendicino

Scenic and Costume Design: Zane Pihlstrom
Lighting Design: Gina Scherr
Video Design: Iva Simeic
Sound Design: Brian MacQueen
Stage Manager: Shawn Senavinin

Featuring: Kristen Connolly, Eric Gilde, Jessi D. Hill, Gilbert Owuor, Thomas Russell, & Joseph Tapper

Photos by Gina Scherr

Production: The Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts
217 Park Street, New Haven

About the Production
Tea Alagic’s production of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck is set in an asylum-like environment reminiscent of Marat/Sade. The staging creates a fast-paced, increasingly intense world in which logic breaks down and shifts in movement, behavior, and situation occur with disorienting speed—mirroring the instability of a fractured mind.

The production uses a highly stylized physical language inspired by silent film. Gestures are exaggerated and often grotesque, forming a vocabulary of desperate communication. As characters repeat basic movements, the sense of breakdown deepens: meaning collapses, and communication becomes increasingly impossible.

Woyzeck is portrayed as a dual role, performed by two actors positioned at opposite ends of the stage. Their movements are precisely synchronized, emphasizing fragmentation and emotional disconnection. Within this divided structure, Woyzeck endures an escalating psychological pressure that ultimately culminates in violence, marking the collapse of all remaining tension.

About the Work:
Woyzeck is a poor soldier struggling to support Marie and their child while enduring humiliation, exploitation, and cruel medical experiments. As poverty and jealousy overwhelm him, his grip on reality begins to collapse, leading to a devastating act of violence.

Tea Alagić directed the production for the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts in New Haven. Büchner’s unfinished masterpiece is a powerful examination of class, mental illness, and the destruction of an individual by an unjust society.