Buechner's Woyzeck Training

Eight French actors and I have just finished the seventh weekend of nine in Paris on Buechner's play Woyzeck; we are using it as a way of learning and practising how to apply Michael Chekhov's technique to a play and a character. 

We spent some time exploring words in the text and the associated images, we improvised the scenes, we revisited the atmospheres of both the whole play and then the individual scenes, speaking the words as if they were the atmosphere, and so on... And so the exploratory work, that had been dormant for so many months, continued... 

 

And with every different aspect that the individual actors explored, perhaps because we had not worked with each other in person for such a long time, the living substance of the play, the scenes and the characters began to fill the space and permeate the actors' bodies. It was a real pleasure to work with these individuals, all so devoted to, committed to the Chekhov work: thank you all from my heart for your beautiful, beautifully creative work.