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Spring Awakening: 1 (Oberon Modern Plays)

Spring Awakening: 1 (Oberon Modern Plays)

by Frank Wedekind (Author), Anya Reiss (Author), Frank Wedekind (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

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Synopsis

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. Brought bang up to date by award-winning playwright Anya Reiss this 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

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 31 Mar 2014
ISBN 10: 1783190981
ISBN 13: 9781783190980

Media Reviews
'The most thrilling adaptation of Spring Awakening I have ever seen...' Five Stars - Financial Times ' - Anya Reiss has taken Wedekind's original way ahead of its time.' Four Stars - The Times 'Confusion is eternal, so Anya Reiss's new version neatly relocates the play in our world of smartphone smut and suicide selfies.' Sunday Times 'She captures the desperation and somnambulism of Wedekind's [characters] but shrewdly updates their world.' Observer 'Urgent and thrilling.' - Telegraph 'Spring Awakening ticks all the right boxes with regards to being a powerful piece of contemporary theatre: it engages you, comments on the world we live in today and gets you to think about your views on it - this new version of Spring Awakening is a dark, tongue-in-cheek, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that will keep you thinking long after the final blackout.' - Younger Theatre
Author Bio
Anya Reiss completed the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court. Her 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 adaptations of The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse, 2013) and Three Sisters (Southwark Playhouse, 2014) are also published by Oberon Books.