Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) - Softcover

Wedekind, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822222817 ISBN 13: 9780822222811

Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service, 2009

Synopsis

This new translation of this notorious but pioneering play is an obvious addition to the NHB Drama Classics series. This volume includes an extensive introduction giving the background to play and author, and an account of its long struggle to be free of censorship.

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Review

"Scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry."--"The Times of London"

About the Author

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) was a journalist, advertising manager, secretary to a circus, cabaret artiste, satirist, convict and actor as well as the author of twenty-one plays, many of which reflect aspects of his extraordinary career. He himself paid for the publication of Spring Awakening (1891), though it was not staged till 1906. (In England it was banned from public performance until 1963.) Earth Spirit (1895), the first of his plays to be seen on stage (1898), introduced the sexually voracious Lulu, who also figured in Pandora's Box (1904) and subsequently in Alban Berg's opera (Lulu, 1935) and in Peter Barnes' conflation of the two plays seen in England in 1970. Other notable plays include The Marquis of Keith (1900; British premiere, 1974), King Nicolo (1902), Castle Wetterstein (1910) and Franziska (1912). Wedekind was greatly admired by Brecht, and his satiric songs still have considerable bite.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822222817
• ISBN 13: 9780822222811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80