Maladype Theatre is one of the best-known and most recognized independent companies of Hungary. Since its foundation in 2002, many of Maladype productions (Genet: The Black, Hőlderlin: Empedocles, Wyspianski: Acropolis, Ostrovski: The Storm, Büchner: Leonce and Lena) have received great critical and popular acclaim, as well as several awards (Best Independent Company, Best Independent Performance etc.) Led by founder and artistic director Zoltán Balázs, the company has turned towards original theatre forms and is in constant search for a new kind of theatrical language and a synthesis of different genres, such as film, dance or opera. Their unique theatre style derives from concentrated and intensive workshops, a strong stage presence and permanent and direct communication with the audience. National coproductions include outstanding Hungarian artists of all fields from film to music, while for international projects their main interest lies in the exchange of thoughts, methods, ideas, approaches to theatre rather than of productions. Such projects have recently included Middentity 2007 in Nitra, Slovakia.

Claudio Collová founded Cooperativa Teatrale Dioniso, today known as Officine Ouragan, in Palermo in 1985 with a group of Sicilian artists (actors, painters, dancers, musicians), Their experimental productions - mainly physical and inspired by poetry, photography or painting - have been invited to international theatre festivals in Italy and abroad. Collová’s last work abroad was Hamlet - Album de Familie with Teatrul Mic in Bucharest, after Mueller and Shakespeare.

„I have worked on Woyzeck on several occasions, in Stuttgart, in Milano, in my hometown Palermo, and now here, finally in Budapest. For me the material in it is always in movement, not static and offers a number of different interpretations. I have focused my attention on the characters of Woyzeck and Marie, who are the only ones called by name, and the only ones, who don’t survive to death. You see them on stage, multiplied, as in a Bacon-triptych, in a sequence where everything is but a post-mortem memory of what has already happened.  The sequences are repeated to infinity, in a sort of eternal vision of Woyzeck. What Büchner says intrigues me, because Woyzeck’s hallucination belongs to all human beings, me included. And to the figures of Bacon, who is a real inspiration for me in this work.”

(Claudio Collová)

Performed by
Éva Bakos, Hermina Fátyol, Kamilla Fátyol, Zoltán Lendváczky, Ákos Orosz, Zsolt Páll, Katalin Simkó, Ádám Tompa

Set, costumes, lights, directed by: Claudio Collová
Woyzeck’s song: Giacco Pojero, Nino Vetri
Assistant director: Kristóf Varsányi , Mirella Mátrai
Production manager: Andrea Demeter