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Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy

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What I got from it, though was a clearer idea of why the post-World War I Weimar Republic's avante-garde couldn't wait to sweep away the cultural system that produced this kind of stuff.

A controversial play published in , not performed until , and adpated into a musical in , Spring's Awakening is the story of children facing the beginning of adolescence within the repressed culture of Germany. This edition, translated and edited by Bentley, contains a number of mini-essays by the editor on everything from the play's timeline to some of its key themes. This commentary is interesting if artless and, combined with the sprinkling of typos, begs for an editor , providing an adequate introduction to the play and plentiful food for thought. To those that have seen the Broadway adaptation, the original play will be familiar--and that does no harm to either version.

The musical updates without losing the play's historical setting and rounds out the rest of the cast in particular its women , making it more approachable, broadening and highlighting its essential truths: The original play, meanwhile, is deeply invested in its historical setting and the youth of its characters, and offers stronger protagonists foiled by a shallower, utilitarian supporting cast; despite being blatantly controversial it relies on understatement and implication, a combination to gives the reader pause and the story depth.

And where the ending of the musical falters, dissolving into a saccharine musical number that simply shoves aside the play's themes, the original final scene is brilliant: Melchior's conversation with Mortiz and the Man in the Mask is a somewhat more concrete, much more ambiguous, complex conclusion which develops the play's themes--its relationships, social and biological, between life, sexual awakening, and death--while refusing to tie them up in a neat, completed package.

This difference may be the reason to prefer, or at least explore, the source material, but familiarity with the musical is hardly the only reason to pick up the play: Spring's Awakening is a swift read although I'd love the chance to see it performed on stage , but it lingers on the mind. It has its weaknesses, as do Bentley's essays, but the birth of life bringing all its dangers of death, the moribundity of society and the indescribable beauty that arises despite it, approached with irony, humor, and palpable love make Spring's Awakening a success--and it doesn't even need to be a show-stopping musical.

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I bet five marks that you lose your place. I lay on the floor and shrieked and howled. To-morrow I'll grease the hinges. I am very ready--in case you desire it--to write to your parents. You must ask Ina.

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The volume also contains Spring Awakening, "a work of great compassion that still has a lot to teach us about the dangers of battening down adolescent sex The translation of Spring Awakening "scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry" The Times was commissioned by the National Theatre and that of Lulu: A Monster Tragedy "the Bonds' version is sharper and funnier than its predecessors" Guardian was toured nationally. Both plays are complemented by the translators' historically illuminating introductions.

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