Word: wedekind
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...Lulu,” originally released in two parts, “Earth Spirit” (1895) and “Pandora’s Box” (1902), has historically been shrouded in scandalous sexuality. In fact, when the play premiered in 1904 in Nuremberg, Wedekind and his publisher were met with federal charges for disseminating obscene material. Performances in Germany were banned shortly thereafter...
...Carroll's Vanities" whose stage name was Flo Allen. But his true love was his second wife, Dolly Haas. Dorothy Louise Clara Haas was born, in 1910, in Hamburg to a German mother and an English bookseller father. As a teenager she appeared in "The Mikado," "The Merry Widow," Wedekind's "Franziska" and a Max Reinhardt spectacle. In theater or cabaret, the redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif...
...Wedekind's play is deeply complex. His title character has been sexually molested from childhood by her father and her adored high-society patron Dr. Schöning, and sex is the only form of communication she knows. For most of the play Lulu is gleefully happy in her seductive power. Schöning and Lulu end up dead, one shot, the other torn apart by Jack the Ripper...
...Wedekind's wildest fantasy and his darkest fear...
...action swiftly along. Kent's one clever touch is the lurking presence of Jack the Ripper, for whom Lulu constantly waits. When they finally meet, she is charmed. He is her dream date, as well as her nightmare. It is the final paradox of a play in which Wedekind poses tantalising questions: Is Lulu a monster, and who uses whom? Unfortunately, Kent and Friel don't have the answers...