Spring Awakening
By Anya Reiss
3.5/5
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'You said if you didn’t love them, if you weren’t happy, if you didn’t care about them, it wasn’t real.' Unnerving, entertaining, funny and dark, Wedekind’s definitive play about youth caused riots when it exploded onto the stage in 1906 and has lost none of its provocative power. Anya Reiss’ new version examines the exuberance, intensity and confusion of teenage life today. Spring Awakening asks important and pressing questions about how young people are shaped for their future by a generation that doesn’t understand them.
Anya Reiss
Anya Reiss’ first play, Spur of the Moment, premiered at the Royal Court in July 2010, winning her the award for Most Promising Playwright at both the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards, and also the TMA Theatre Award for Best New Play. Her second play, The Acid Test, also opened at the Royal Court in 2011, and was a box office sell-out earning rave reviews. She also contributed to the Bush Theatre’s Sixty-Six Books (2011), writing a response to a chapter of the King James Bible. Her short play Forty Five Minutes was staged as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival in 2013. Her adaptations of The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse, 2013), Spring Awakening (Headlong, 2014), Three Sisters (Southwark Playhouse, 2014) and Uncle Vanya (St James Theatre, 2014) are also published by Oberon Books.
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Reviews for Spring Awakening
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant, shocking, and heartbreaking.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It would seem that even in the 19th century teenagers were full on angst. At its hart the play is a criticism of 19th century German society's sexual repressiveness. The main plot of the story is how through not teaching their children about sex and reproduction the parents and society at large doomed Wendla,Melchior, Moritz to a tragic end. Wendla, who gets pregnant after having sex with Melchior(and seems to be abliviouse to the fact that it was happening) but refuses to accept the fact due to her mother telling her that only people in love can have children dies of an abortion. Moritz, who is disturbed by his sexual urges get Melchior, who knows all about sex to right an essay about it but later is still distracted by his urges which causes his study's to suffer leading to his expulsion and him committing suicide. Melchior is blamed for Moritz death and also expelled with his parents sending him to a reform school where he agonizes over Moritz and Wendla. Eventually he escapes and stumbles into a graveyard where he finds Wendla's grave and encounters the ghost of Moritz who tries to trick Melchior into death saying that he's learned so much being dead. Melchior almost accepts but is stopped by a masked man who convinces Melchior that he still might have something to live for. the main problem I had was that Melchior was so unlikeable he was the epitome of whiny teenage angst. and I really couldn't feel sorry for him. I can see why the play has been banned when it came out as it does deal with subjects that polite society at the time did not talk about. I tried to like the play but it was thoroughly depressing and the angst got really annoying. I can appreciate it for it place in theater history and it's criticism of German society in the late 19th century but that's about it as its not a fun read.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5German play said to be one of the most censored plays. The story centers around 3 14-year old children, Moritz who is shocked by his “stirrings of manhood”, stressed by school and then shoots himself after reading a 20 page essay on copulation written by a friend, Melchior. The “hero” of the drama is Melchior who is beginning to question all, love, God, sex, manhood. In a humorous scene Melchior’s professors are about to expelled him from school when Melchior asks, “please show me one office against morals in the document.” Melchior is sent to a reform school and meets up with a headless Moritz in a cemetery at the end of the book. The third main character is 14, Wendla who asks her mother where do babies come from. Her mother tells her you must be in love and married to have a baby. Melchior rapes Wendla in a barn one stormy night, she gets pregnant but believes she is swelling from dropsy. She could not be pregnant cause she isn’t in love nor married. The abortion pills her mother gives her end up killing her. masturbation seems to be a running theme throughout the story. Very difficult to understand this play. 2-2006
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great play, that has offensive language and adult themes. All about Germany in the mid 1800's, all about friendship and going against the grain of religion.