Handspring Puppet Company . William Kentridge > Woyzeck on the Highveld

Director > William Kentridge

Director of the revival > Luc de Wit

Designers > Adrian Kohler and William Kentridge

Animation > William Kentridge

Light design > Wesley France

Assistant animator > Erica Elk

Video editor > Thabo Nel

Actor > Mncedisi Shabangu

Puppeteers > Nkosinathi Gaar, Jason Potgieter, Hamilton Dhlamini, Busi Zokufa, Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones

Technical director > Wesley France

Sound engineer > Simon Mahoney

Stage manager > Bruce Koch

Music produced by > Steve Cooks, Edward Jordan

Sound design > Wilbert Schoubel

Cello > Clara Hooyberg

Piano accordions > Alfred Makgalemele, Isaac van Graan

Puppet maker > Adrian Kohler

Assistant puppet makers > Francois Viljoen, Erica Elk

Original light concept > Mannie Manim

Set Builder > Francois Viljoen

Costumes > Hazel Maree

Project coordinator > Basil Jones

Production manager > Wesley France

Production > The Standard Bank National Arts Festival, the Johannesburg City Council, the Foundation for the Creative Arts, the German Embassy in South Africa, the Department of National Education and Art Bureau (Munich).

Associate Production > Sarah Ford / Quaternaire (Administration: Renaud Mesini – Coordination: Alexandra Vigneron)

An adaptation curated by William Kentridge of the famous opera by the German author, Georg Büchner. In the present version, Woyzeck is a worker who migrated to Johannesburg in 1956, an exterminated land of sterile industrialization. Production puts on stage puppets and animation to graphically illustrate Woyzeck’s mental tortures who is trying to give some meaning to his existence.