Monday, December 06, 2021
‘I cried every day at work – now I am here!’ Spring Awakening’s fresh cast step on stage
Musicals | The Guardian: No one saw Spring Awakening for the first 15 years of its existence. Written in 1891 by Frank Wedekind, a former cabaret performer, the German play about a group of randy teenagers trying to figure out themselves and their desires was outlawed for obscenity. Criticising and satirising bourgeois oppression, moral convention and the lack of anything close to comprehensive sex education, it was deemed entirely inappropriate for audiences.
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Wow, I was not aware Spring Awakening was as old as it is! I've never seen it because of its content warnings but have always been impressed with the issues it tries to bring people to talk about. I found this article particularly relatable since all the performers are quite young and recent graduates. The section where they talked about how difficult it was to do theatre education over zoom felt like talking to everyone in my immediate circle who has also been dealing with these exact problems and feelings for the past year or so. Describing it as "an unmooring experience" was definitely an accurate one. I appreciate how personally connected each of these performers are to the material they're presenting and how much they're considering what teens going through these topics during the pandemic may be feeling and needing from the media. Approaching this show from a place of relating to the character's experience of finding themselves will make seeing the performer's journey within their career interesting as well. I hope they do a similar interview with them when it's all over.
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