THE CUTTING BALL THEATER NEWSLETTER
March 21, 2007 - Volume 3, Issue 7

Raves for Woyzeck

The Reviews are in for The Cutting Ball’s production of Woyzeck!

L to R: Ryan Oden, John Russell, Felicia Benefield, Chad Deverman, Cheryl Garcia

Georg Büchner’s still astonishingly modern and widely influential, unfinished 1837 drama is given a visually stunning and inventively conceived staging by Adriana Baer in Cutting Ball Theater’s premiere of Rob Melrose’s vital new translation.

-- Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

David Sinaiko and Chad Deverman

If Georg Buchner's "Woyzeck" seems to be an explosion of dramatic ideas and imagery, well, that's exactly what it is....San Francisco theater company The Cutting Ball, specialists in experimental works and reinterpretations of classics, opened a sharp production of "Woyzeck" last week at The Exit on Taylor...Baer's production is always interesting to look at. Melpomene Katakalos' mostly white set is a collage of everyday items all neatly contained in shelves and compartments, and Melrose's lighting plays off the whiteness to give us washes of red or green to match the mood.

-- Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune

Bill Selig and Chad Deverman (standing)

Jean Schiffman's feature in the SF Arts Monthly:

Cutting Ball Theater Tackles Buchner's Woyzeck
http://www.sfarts.org/top_stories.cfm?story_num=2

Chad Deverman and Drea Bernardi

Please join us after the show every Thursday and Friday for a talkback with the cast.

For more information on the play, read dramaturg Lucia Scheckner’s article
Woyzeck is the Open Wound.

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