Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik Pomladno prebujenje
Spring Awakening, 2007
Musical

 

Dialogues translated by Jakob Jaša Kenda
Songs translated by Gaja Lužnik Ivanuša
Directed by Sebastijan Horvat
Music director Drago Ivanuša

 

Opening in Decembre 2009

Slovenian premiere

 

 

Germany, late 19th century. The gap between teenagers becoming young adults, discovering eroticism and sexuality, and their parents who aren't able to deal with it in an open and responsible way. On the one hand there is distress giving rise to questions, and on the other hand there is prejudice, refusing to give answers. Three teenagers are the protagonists of the story. There is Wendla whose mother denies her the answers and who keeps secret the basic truth about growing up; Moritz caught in the pinch of problems at school, and Melchior Gabor whose mother is more liberal than the other. They are uninformed, somewhat lonely and dishonest which takes them on the road to disaster that could well be averted.

 

This well known “childhood tragedy”, where Frank Wedekind criticises the hypocritical turn of the century bourgeois society in 1891, was the basis for a huge musical hit that swooped Broadway and West End off its feet. Wedekind’s original text was upgraded by Steven Sater’s and Duncan Sheik’s extraordinary songs, distinguished by bold, expressive lyrics, and a suggestive rock sound. One of the most successful modern musicals loved by audiences as well as the critics will be directed by Sebastijan Horvat on grand stage. Mr Horvat’s debut in Mestno gledališče ljubljansko was in 1994, staging Spring Awakening in Wedekind’s original dramatic version, which was met with excellent response.