She is consumed with the physical desire for something unknown and the denial of answers makes the longing more profound. Wendla (Ali Hoxie) is an emerging woman troubled by the knowledge that there are things she doesn’t know and that no one will tell her. The society’s refusal and the adults’ failure to accept the nature of life and offer the youth proper instruction on these basics is the catalyst for heartbreak, catastrophe and the unnecessary ruination of young lives. These young women are also denied the knowledge they depend upon the adults for. The girls are carrying on with themselves, walking around caressing their own respective bodies and yearning for touch, any touch, and not understanding what is not right with them…when, in fact, everything is right with them. Wedekind’s young men awaken in the morning in a mortifying state with the consequent self loathing and shame created when emerging adults are denied proper instruction about life. But that is more necessarily a good thing than a return to the days of family humiliation with the honor of any family being bound up in a daughter’s chastity and virtue. The timeliness of the topics and the issues confronting today’s teenagers are not repressed they are in fact too honestly represented on various MTV reality shows.
Yearning teenagers are a subject stretching back to the farthest reaches of antiquity and how the succeeding civilizations have treated this aspect of human maturation has not advanced over the epochs. In the face of the sexual themes, the show also deals with young men who are too smart for their own good and young women whose parental love may be measured in physical abuse and sexual molestation. Keegan Theatre is presenting the contemporary musical adaptation, Spring Awakening, with a cast of marvelously talented young men and adequate young women in an audacious illustration of sexual maturity in the face of societal denial and suppression.įruhlings Erwachen was adapted for the musical stage in 2006 as a frank and contemporaneous, but musically updated story about a conundrum of life that has many answers, none of them entirely satisfactory. His 1891 play Fruhlings Erwachen caused a scandal across empires because of its frank discussion of sexual themes in an age of sexual repression and clandestine physical consummation combined with the social and religious doctrines of equating child abuse with love.
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Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was a free thinking libertine, incarcerated for his politics and censored for his social candor because he was in Germany and not the United States like his namesake.
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