Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. The play criticises the sexually oppressive culture of nineteenth century and offers a vivid dramatisation of the erotic fantasies that it breeds. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his teachers, shoots himself. The ending seems likely to be the suicide of Moritz’s friend, Melchior, but in a confrontation with a mysterious stranger he finally manages to shed his illusions and face the consequences.

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Marco Formosa, Jessica Howell, Ian McWethy, Tom Baran, Kate Chadwick, Kerry Chipman, Olwyn Conway, Ian Crawford, Kelley Curran, Brian Gillespie, Paul Guyet, Ian Sinclair Lassiter, Pete Mele, Graham Skipper
Original Company

Franz Wedekind
Playwright

Ted Hughes
Translation

David Ruttura
Director

Matt Gurry
Scenic Design

David Ruttura
Lighting Design

Christie Carroll
Costume Design

David Chandler
Fight Choreography

Fordham University in the Gerald Quinn Blackbox Theatre
Producer

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