Lydia Duval covers the excellent new rock musical, Spring Awakening from LUU’s Music Theatre Society
Spring Awakening: MT strips back and wows
Do you remember being fifteen? Awful, wasn’t it? MT’s production of Spring Awakening revisits all the feelings of that turbulent time – confusion, boredom, anger, fear, and of course, the all-encompassing sexual frustration. Based on […]
Features | DIY – Make your own theatre company
Bethany Taylor talks about starting a theatre company at the age of 18. Called Cognito Theatre, the company was created with the intention of using performance to tackle and discuss current issues. Their first project […]
Theatre | Spring Awakening – the infamous play gets an evocative modern update
Image: West Yorkshire Playhouse The West Yorkshire Playhouse’s adaptation of Spring Awakening, first performed in 1906, is not for the fainthearted. The line “when I first came, I became an atheist” does not even begin […]
Interview | Ekow Quartey – Spring Awakening Star
An exciting and contemporary version of Wedekind’s Spring Awakening is bursting onto stage at the West Yorkshire Playhouse next month. Provocative and unnerving, the play depicts the confusion and intensity of teenage life today. The […]