William Kentridge & The Handspring Puppet Company

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William Kentridge and The Handspring Puppet Company are performing "Woyzeck on the Highveld" in Budapest.

Whether the scene is a small town in Germany or the Highveld plateau of South Africa; whether the hero a soldier or a worker; whether the story takes place 150 years ago or today – the sense of helplessness that the man in the street experiences in an industrial society will remain the same. We are all puppets…

The Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa has been creating puppet theatre productions for adults since 1985. Their work is marked by a variety of approaches, a free use of the experimentation possibilities inherent in the genre. Since 1992, the company has cooperated with several South African artists, among them William Kentridge, whose freehand drawing‐based animated films have earned him world‐wide acclaim.

The first, very successful result of their cooperation was Woyzeck on the Highveld, an adaptation of the German Georg Büchner’s well‐known drama. In this version, the hero is not a 19th‐century German soldier but an immigrant worker in the middle of the 20th century, in Johannesburg, a city turned into a bleak industrial town. Together, the puppets and the animation make tangible the objective circumstances of history and the occurrences in Woyzeck’s tortured mind. Since its premiere in 1992, the production, which Kentridge directed, has toured several European countries, and almost every continent.

Performers: Mncedisi Shabangu – actor, Nkosinathi Gaar, Jason Potgieter, Hamilton DhlAmini, Busi Zokufa – puppeteers, Clara Hooyberg – cello, Alfred Makgalemele, Isaac van Graan – harmonica

Director of the revival version: Luc de Wit
Music: Steve Cooks, Edward Jordan
Vision: Adrian Kohler, William Kentridge
Puppet art: Adrian Kohler
Animation: William Kentridge
Lights: Wesley France
Sound: Simon Mahoney, Wilbert Schoubel

Director: William Kentridge