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Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy

Overview

Gender
Female
Playing Age
Early Teen
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene Six
Time & Place
A family garden in Germany just before dawn in 1891.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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Text

WENDLA: Why have you slipped out of the room?——To hunt violets!——Because Mother seems to laugh at me.——Why can't you bring your lips together any more?——I don't know.——Indeed I don't know, I can't find words——The path is like a velvet carpet, no pebbles, no thorns.——My feet don't touch the ground.——Oh, how I slept last night!

Here they are.——I become as grave as a nun at communion.——Sweet violets!——Peace, little mother, I will put on my long dress.——Oh God, if somebody would come upon whose neck I could fall and tell!

Wedekind, Frank. Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy. Trans. Francis J. Ziegler, 1910. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35242/35242-h/35242-h.htm

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