Frank Wedekind’s most popular play, Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy was written during 1890-1891. Considered by many to be a foundational text in modern theatre, its episodic style and controversial subject matter inspired Bertolt Brecht and the formation of his Epic Theatre. Other writers and philosophers of the time praised its uncensored portrayal of adolescence and sexuality. But it was for these same reasons that Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy did not have its first production until 1906 at the Deutsches Theatre in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt - with
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