Words of Wanting; Deaf West's "Spring Awakening" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
By Erik Jonathan Shuler (@ErikJShuler) The tender intimacies laced through the story of Spring Awakening have an enduring and expanding magic. The original text by Frank Wedekind was written in 1891 as a contemporary commentary on the time. It revealed the tragic course of social and sexual oppression through the lives of several German adolescents ...