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Spring Awakening " review by Mark Fisher

Traverse, EdinburghIt must have been tempting to go down The Inbetweeners route. However outrageous the E4 teen comedy gets, there is little in its portrayal of adolescent angst that Frank Wedekind didn't do first in Spring Awakening. By using translator Douglas Maxwell, a playwright with a catalogue of coming-of-age dramas, Grid Iron theatre company could have opted to refashion Wedekind's 1891 play (banned in the U…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM on November 3, 2010

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