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1885 – a time of great passion, great confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. Women are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire.

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"What’s the point in books if they don’t tell the truth? What’s the point in schools if they don’t teach us what we need to know? All this education and absolutely no knowledge. So…please…tell me.

Wendla just wants to feel something. She wants shorter skirts and frills on her nightgown. But most of all, Wendla wants to know! Why won’t anyone tell her?

Melchior knows more than he’s supposed to. To him, the euphemisms and the hypocrisy are ridiculous and insulting. But what he’s learned from books doesn’t prepare him for the power of his and Wendla’s freed desires.

A giant classroom becomes a metaphor for learning about life and death, channeling the extraordinary force of adolescent sexuality as it roars against the harsh and fearful restrictions imposed by the adult world.

Spring Awakening is a major European play. Since its first performance in Berlin in 1906, it has remained contentious in its portrayal of young people’s sexual relationships. Douglas Maxwell’s lean and dynamic version sets the play in turn of the century Scotland - a time when Calvinist culture ruled an education system beginning to be influenced by the freer movements of continental Europe."

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