{"product_id":"spring-awakening-a-play","title":"Spring Awakening: A Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Frank Wedekind\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Jonathan Franzen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSpring Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e 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 relevant than ever. \u003cem\u003eSpring Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading.”—Christopher Shinn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play \u003cem\u003eSpring Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play's subject matter—teenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexuality—is as explosive and important today as it was a century ago. \u003cem\u003eSpring Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, \u003cem\u003eSpring Awakening\u003c\/em\u003e offers no easy answers or redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, one hundred years after the play's first performance, a new musical version of this essential modern masterpiece is being hailed as the \"best new musical . . . in a generation\" (John Heilpern, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/em\u003e). Franzen's version of the text—for so long poorly served in English—is unique in capturing the bizarre and inimitable comic spirit that animates almost every line of this unrelentingly tragic play. There couldn't be a better time for this thrilling, definitive new translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published in 1891\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5.5 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780865479784\u003cbr\u003ePlay\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16226168963144,"sku":"9780865479784","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Spring-Awakening_Frank-Wedekind_Jonathan-Franzen.jpg?v=1591289034","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/spring-awakening-a-play","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}