Spring Awakening (German: Frühlings Erwachen) (also translated as Spring's Awakening and The Awakening of Spring) is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a foundational work in the modern history of theatre.

Spring Awakening is a coming-of-age rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the 1891 German play Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. Set in late 19th-century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of adolescent sexuality.

Based on Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking and controversial play (once banned in Germany), Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s brilliant rock score and searingly emotional book take the story of sexual awakening, youth revolt, and self-discovery into a new century.

“SPRING AWAKENING is the best play ever written about teenagers, and Jonathan Franzen’s fraught yet buoyant translation is the best I’ve ever read. In a culture where lies about adolescence prevail, this funny and honest play is more …

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy is an 1891 bildungsroman by the German playwright Frank Wedekind. The play chronicles a group of teenagers struggling to navigate puberty in the sexually repressive environment of fin-de-siècle provincial Germany.

John Yorke examines the radical 1891 play Spring Awakening by German dramatist Frank Wedekind. A cautionary, nightmarish portrait of teenage angst and rebellion against oppressive social ...

Spring Awakening is a play written in 1891 by Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), a German playwright. [1] The work depicts schoolchildren in a German provincial town in the 1890s whose struggle to reconcile their budding sexual feelings and the …

Spring Awakening Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater & Music by Duncan Sheik Based on the play by Frank Wedekind April 6-8 & 12-15, 2018 Wake Forest University Theatre presents Spring Awakeningis presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Join this group of late nineteenth century German students on their passage as the navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in the daring, remarkable Spring Awakening.

Wedekind’s play Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy avoids a simplistic label as it combines symbolism, beauty and grotesque, and realism. It is often considered a precursor to expressionism. While the play was written c. 1890-1891, it was not produced until 1906.