Mad Horse Theatre Company Presents SPRING AWAKENING The Play, Opens 5/5

Mad Horse Theater presents SPRING AWAKENING by Frank Wedekind, translated by Jonathan Franzen. The play runs Thursday - Sunday May 5th - 22nd at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993. Tickets are $18.00& $20.00. Thursdays are pay-what-you-can. For reservations please call 899-3993. More information is available at www.madhorse.com.

First performed amid scandal in 1906, the play explores the dawning sexual and intellectual awareness of young, German teenagers. Banned in its1917 New York run after one night, the play is comic, unsentimental, and brutally authentic.An ensemble of 20 actors, ranging in age from 14 to 70, perform the original 1906 script that was the basis for the 2007 Tony Winning Musical sensation. Wedekind's unsentimental and brutally authentic, comedic treatment of such radical content as teenage sex, and suicide created public outrage and charges of obscenity. Best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen's exquisite translation captures all of the   drama and sarcasm of the original script."SPRING AWAKENING is the best play ever written about teenagers." -Christopher Shinn, playwright

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