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Spring Awakening

National Tour
Spring 2013
A co-production with King's Theatre, Southsea
Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

By Frank Wedekind
Translated by Edward Bond

Germany, 1891.

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Play Information

Spring Awakening is German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a seminal work in the modern history of theatre.  The play attacks the sexually oppressive culture of fin de siècle Germany and offers a vivid criticism of the erotic fantasies it breeds.

15-year-old Melchior is chased out of town for acts of hedonistic, lewd and despicable moral character. Wendla, his 14-year-old love, dies during a tragic abortion thrust upon her by narrow-minded parents.

But Melchior is the brightest boy in school and sees sex as just a natural act that ends in the beauty of childbirth.

Crushed by Wendla's death and persecuted by the authorities (and even his own parents) Melchior battles through purgatory where he confronts the ghosts of his past.

Creative Team

Director: Max Lewendel
Asst Director: TBA
Movement Director: TBA
Fight Director: TBA
Production Manager: TBA
Set Designer: TBA
Costume Designer: TBA
Sound Designer: TBA
Lighting Designer: TBA
Stage Manager: TBA
Graphic Artist: TBA
Asst. Producer: TBA
Photographer: TBA

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