Brilliant Play by a brilliant Writer | Spring Awakening: A Play

A Startling & Rare Translation of the German Classic! | Spring Awakening: A Play | Frank Wedekind

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	• Spring Awakening: A Play Frank Wedekind Faber & Faber, 2007 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Just as relevant today as a century ago!

Spring awakening explores the sexual awakening of teenage boys and girls in Germany in the late 1800's. It was shocking in its day, and still is somewhat today, despite the openness of our society.
The Frank Wedekind play has been updated, set to music, and will open as a major Broadway Musical in Spring, 2003. Watch for it, you will be blown away! And be sure to read the play first. You'll be amazed at how true the production is to Frank Wedekind's fine work.

Brilliant Play by a brilliant Writer

as an actor I have just performed this play I was Mechior one of the lead roles this book has a mixture of teenage experiences, a must read for all directors and actors if you ever get a chance to perform it then make sure you do

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A Startling & Rare Translation of the German Classic!

Hughes' translation seems as rich, exciting & electric to modern readers as the original text must have been to audiences a century ago. It avoids the stiff awkwardness that former English translations have been known for, while still remaining true to Wedekind's dark symbolism and expressionistic overtones. A must-read for theater-lovers and practictioners alike.

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great play -- feels very contemporary!

I heard Franzen speak about how unfaithful the recent NY production was to Wedekind's anarchistic perspective. This is a brash and funny send up of modern society's sexual hypocrisy. Fast read, too.

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First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind?s controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind?s intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play?s subject matter?teenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexuality?is as explosive and important today as it was acentury ago. Spring Awakening follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, Spring Awakening offers no easy answersor redemption.

Today, one hundred years after the play?s first performance, a new musical version of this essential modern masterpiece is being hailed as the ?best new musical . . . in a generation? (John Heilpern, The New York Observer). Franzen?s version of the text?for so long poorly served in English?is unique in capturing the bizarre and inimitable comic spirit that animates almost every line of this unrelentingly tragic play. There couldn?t be a better time for this thrilling, definitive new translation.

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