num_pages: 71
description: Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first producedWedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a century before it received its first complete performance in Britain, at the National Theatre in 1974. The production was highly praised, much of its strength deriving from this translation by Edward Bond and Elisabeth Bond Pablé, 'scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry.' The TimesThis translation of Spring Awakening was first performed at the National Theatre, London on 24 May 1974. For this edition the translator, Edward Bond, has written a note on the play and a factual introduction to Wedekind's life and work.
language: English
title: Spring Awakening
titlecomplete: Spring Awakening
characters: Wendla Bergmann, Melchior Gabor
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Drama, German Literature, School, Read For School, Classics, 19th Century, Germany
ratings_count: 8363
publisher: Methuen Drama