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Our Cast

 

Wendla Amelia Doolan

Martha Madison Tomarchio

Thea Nina Mlippmann

Anna Grace Royle

Ilse Josie Power

Melchior Finn Buckle

Moritz Lachlan Greenland

Hanschen Matthew Isokangas

Ernst Alexander Papageorgiou

Georg Brady Cronin

Otto Brett Northeast

Adult Woman Rachel Cairns

Adult Man Brett Greenland

 

Ensemble


Thomas Pitiris

Daniel Hales

Craig Land

Emilie Chong

Laura Hodder

Sophie Vigor

Kieri Darrigan

About the Show

 

SPRING AWAKENING takes its inspiration from one of literature's most controversial masterpieces - a work so daring in its depiction of teenage self-discovery, it was banned from the stage and not performed in its complete form in English for nearly 100 years.

 

It's Germany, 1891. A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress.

Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz - a boy so traumatised by puberty he can't concentrate on anything. Not that the Headmaster cares. He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson.

One afternoon - in a private place in the woods - Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they've ever felt.

As they fumble their way into one another's arms, Moritz flounders and soon fails out of school. When even his one adult friend, Melchior's mother, ignores his plea for help, he is left so distraught he can't hear the promise of life offered by his outcast friend Ilse.

 

Naturally, the Headmasters waste no time in pinning the "crime" of Moritz's suicide on Melchior and expel him. And soon Mama learns her little Wendla is pregnant. Now the young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together for their child.

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