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Woyzeck: In de TBS

Theater Utrecht | Casper Vandeputte
Wed 17 Feb 20:15
Wed 17 Feb 2027
20:15
  • Wed 17 Feb 2027
    20:15
    Theater aan het Spui, Den Haag
    Hall 2
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In Woyzeck: In de TBS, professional actors, forensic psychiatric patients and staff together explore Georg Büchner's world-famous, unfinished play. A soldier slowly losing his grip on reality. An affair. A knife. A murder. Woyzeck is one of the first texts in world literature to portray a crime committed without criminal responsibility, showing that a perpetrator can also be a victim.

Büchner left behind 27 loose scenes that can be performed in any order. In Woyzeck: In de TBS, directed by Casper Vandeputte, the story is created live and can end differently every night. On stage, a group of staff members from the Van der Hoeven Clinic and forensic psychiatric patients perform alongside professional actors. Actors Vincent van der Valk and Marieke Giebels move among them, guiding, playing and interrupting.

What happens in the mind of someone who loses their grip on life and becomes increasingly violent, and what does that do to bystanders and loved ones? If a perpetrator turns out to also be a victim, how far removed are we really from violence ourselves? And why do we keep watching, what fascinates us?

In Woyzeck: In de TBS, we push right up to the edge of madness, the step into violence. Every night ultimately comes down to one question, one that matters for every actor, every forensic psychiatric patient and every visitor: can you become a different person?

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Concept, text and direction Casper Vandeputte | Performed by Marieke Giebels, Vincent van der Valk, patients and staff of the Van der Hoeven Clinic in varying line-ups | Woyzeck: In de TBS is a production by Theater Utrecht in collaboration with Van der Hoeven Clinic

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