3 May 2010

Its a Spring Awakening @ The Little Theatre ...Cape Town


Dear Friends of the Little Theatre

The UCT Drama Department Present: SPRING AWAKENING

Christopher Weare directs a production of Spring Awakening for the UCT Drama Department. The play is a lively and provocative examination of adolescent sexual awakening in a repressive and sterile society.

Written in 1891 by German playwright Frank Wedekind, whose primary belief was in the necessary expression and liberation of the human body from the bondage of society’s stifling conventions, it is a work of expressionist theatre. Spring Awakening is concerned essentially with the inner conflicts of the teenagers confronted with the experience of altered adolescent awareness. Wedekind strongly criticises archaic educational and correctional institutions and their protagonists, whose destructive attitudes to the natural instincts of youth cause shame, frustration, and anger and perversity. The relationship between the two boys, Melchior and Moritz, forms the central core of the play, which looks at the various decisions faced by, and options open to, young adults.

This topical play is performed by an exciting and large class of final year students. Costumes are designed by Leigh Bishop and Lighting is by Daniel Galloway.

Spring Awakening runs in the Little Theatre from the 6th – 15th May 2010 at 20h00 Monday to Saturday. Tickets cost R50 – R30 and can be booked by dialing 021 480 7129. There is plenty of free, secure parking and Societi Bistro across the road from the theatre offers patrons an excellent dining opportunity before or after the show.

 


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