Frühlings Erwachen

Frühlings Erwachen by German playwright and actor Frank Wedekind (1864-1918).

Performance history in South Africa

Spring Awakening produced by Rhodes University Drama Department directed by Lindy Roberts in July 1981.

Spring Awakening produced by NAPAC's Loft Company in 1990 with, among others, Wilmien Rossouw.

Bloeiende Lente presented by TRUK Toneel, 1985, directed by Dieter Reible at the Momentum, State Theatre Pretoria (23 October to 9 November) and the Arena Theatre Rosebank, Johannesburg (15 to 23 November). The cast: Ilse van Hemert (Ilse), Kim de Beer (Wendla Bergman), Helena Hettema (Thea), Charlotte Butler (Martha), Frank Opperman,(Melchior Garbor), Frans Kalp (Moritz Stiefel), Gert van Niekerk (Hanschen Rilow), Percy Pretorius (Ernst), Albert Maritz (Otto), Jakes Jacobs (Robert), Bruce Alexander (George), Schalk Schoombie (multiple roles). Lighting by Jane Gosnell..

Bloeiende Lente presented by the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department in the H.B. Thom Theatre in August 2005. Direction and design by Marthinus Basson. Members of the cast included Stian Bam, Roeline Daneel and Geon Nel.

Translated into English as Spring Awakening by Edward Bond. Published by Methuen, 1980.

Translated into Afrikaans as Bloeiende Lente by Mitzi Booysen.

Bloeiende Lente programmes, 1985; 2005.

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