Spring Awakening - Softcover

Wedekind, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617203165 ISBN 13: 9781617203169

Publisher: SMK Books, 2011

Synopsis

Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The plays performance was threatened with closure when the city's Commissioner of Licenses claimed that the play was pornographic, due to its portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide, but a New York trial court issued an injunction to allow the production to proceed.

About this title

About the Author

Anya Reiss wrote her first play when she was 14 and then became a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Programme. Last year she was invited to take part in the Royal Court's Supergroup of young writers. Her new adaptation of The Seagull premiered at the Southwark Playhouse at the end of 2012 and prior to that, The Acid Test opened at the Royal Court in May 2011, where it received rave reviews. Her debut play, Spur of the Moment opened at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2010. Since then Anya has won the Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2010 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play at the 2010 TMA Awards and Most Promising Playwright at the 2010 Critics' Circle Awards.

Review

'The most thrilling adaptation of Spring Awakening I have ever seen...' Five Stars - Financial Times ' - Anya Reiss has taken Wedekind's original way ahead of its time.' Four Stars - The Times 'Confusion is eternal, so Anya Reiss's new version neatly relocates the play in our world of smartphone smut and suicide selfies.' Sunday Times 'She captures the desperation and somnambulism of Wedekind's [characters] but shrewdly updates their world.' Observer 'Urgent and thrilling.' - Telegraph 'Spring Awakening ticks all the right boxes with regards to being a powerful piece of contemporary theatre: it engages you, comments on the world we live in today and gets you to think about your views on it - this new version of Spring Awakening is a dark, tongue-in-cheek, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that will keep you thinking long after the final blackout.' - Younger Theatre

Edition details

• Publisher: SMK Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617203165
• ISBN 13: 9781617203169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86