He left four drafts behind and scholars, editors, and translators have puzzled over what to do with those four drafts ever since. For years the thinking was that these four drafts were equal fragments and it was up to the editor to piece together a play from the twenty-five odd scenes set down in these texts. Now scholars believe that the fourth draft was his final draft for publication. This draft only goes to scene seventeen, which means that a play for performance needs to use material from the earlier drafts even to have an hour-long play.
It is decidedly a play for performance. Many have tried to find a similar lower-class dialect in English for Woyzeck and Marie. This translation tries to capture some of the same sounds and sentence structures in English. Each compact scene is full of ideas, action, character, and emotion. Professional actor managers produced, directed and even starred in their own shows. Tug of war between producers who wanted to retain status quo of formal traditional theatre and those who wanted to push boundaries of political based theatre.
Still limitations of state censorship of live theatre Woyzeck hid its political ideas behind a simple story of an ordinary man. The play would have been enjoyed by an audience many who were unhappy with the life in the land ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm The class system was soon to be turned on its head, the emotions explored in Woyzeck would have been pertinent to its audience. Residenztheater was big and very comfortable particularly for those who could afford good seats.
Directors were generally part of the cast. Companies were made up of actors who had worked together many times before. Audiences may have known the lead actors. There were no microphones so voices had to be well developed.
The songs in the play would have been sung with or without accompaniment. What do we know about the audiences? Audiences would have been large as theatre was a very popular pastime.
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