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 traumatized 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.
Join this group of late 19th century German students on their passage as they navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in the daring, remarkable Spring Awakening.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International. All authorised performance material are also supplied by MTI (link: www.mtishows.co.uk) SPRING AWAKENING. Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater. Music by Duncan Sheik. Based on the play by Frank Wedekind.
Director – Christa Harris
Musical Director – Verity Quade
Choreographer – Nadia Sohawon
Lighting Designer – Paul Need
Set Designer – Jack Valentine
Costume Designer – Amy Yardley
HEIMS (performing Friday evening and Saturday matinee)
Melchoir Gabor – Saxon Basson
Wendla Bergman – Jasmine Cole
Moritz Steifel – Aidan Cross
Martha Bessell – Romy Coates-Massey
Hanschen Rilow / Rupert – Joe Jevon
Ilse Neumann – Meg Abbott
Ernst Robel / Reinhold – Teddy Drabble
Thea – Lucy Breese
Otto Lammermeir / Ulbrecht – Jacob Outlaw
Anna – Amy Mash
Georg Zirschnitz / Dieter – Bradly Doko
Frau Bergman (And all Adult Female Identifying Roles including Frau Gabor / Frau Bessell / Fraulein Knuppeldick / Fraulein Grossebustenthal) – Sasha Carroll
Herr Gabor (And all Adult Male Identifying Roles including Herr Stiefel / Herr Rilow / Herr Neumann / Herr Sonnenstich / Headmaster Knochenbruch / Father Kaulbach / Doctor Von Brausepulver / Shmidt) – Andrew Scott-Watson
AESTAS (performing Friday matinee and Saturday evening)
Melchoir Gabor – Saxon Basson
Wendla Bergman – Kate MacAdam
Moritz Steifel – Aidan Cross
Martha Bessell – Olivia Mae Ward
Hanschen Rilow / Rupert – Rubin Cavanagh
Ilse Neumann – Olivia-Rose Deer
Ernst Robel / Reinhold – Teddy Drabble
Thea – Hannah Jarvis
Otto Lammermeir / Ulbrecht – Jacob Outlaw
Anna – Lottie Smith
Georg Zirschnitz / Dieter – Mathy Taieb
Frau Bergman (And all Adult Female Identifying Roles including Frau Gabor / Frau Bessell / Fraulein Knuppeldick / Fraulein Grossebustenthal) – Mali Wen-Davies
Herr Gabor (And all Adult Male Identifying Roles including Herr Stiefel / Herr Rilow / Herr Neumann / Herr Sonnenstich / Headmaster Knochenbruch / Father Kaulbach / Doctor Von Brausepulver / Shmidt) – Andrew MacInnes