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Spring Awakening: A Play
by Frank Wedekind

Published: 2007-09-04
Paperback : 88 pages
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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 For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely ...
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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 For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed.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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  "Not the most enjoyable read, but created good discussion"by Jennifer K. (see profile) 04/16/09

The book was tough to get through and hard to understand since it had very little stage directions included. It made the effort worthwhile though because the themes were timeless and we had a great time... (read more)

 
  "Hard Read but Great Discussion Topics"by Sarah V. (see profile) 04/16/09

This play was a fast but hard read. It was hard in the fact that their was no scene direction and so it was hard to figure out what exactly was going on. The discussion that came from this book makes... (read more)

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