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Director Paul Warner '84, whose modern version of Franz Wedekind's Spring Awakening has raised a few eyebrows, adds. "The summer theater takes risks. And there are a lot of shows in Boston that don't take risks...
...original script of Spring Awakening, written by the German playwright Franz Wedekind, is a brilliant presentation of adolescent sexuality and societal oppression which is at once melodramatic, satirical and tragic. Director Paul Warner's sensitivity to both the theatrical and human dimensions of the script is reflected, at times brilliantly, in his adaptation of the play for Harvard Summer Theatre...
...particular mood, heightening or relieving the tension of a particular scene, but is most effective as a means of drawing out the opposition between theatre-as-entertainment and theatre-as-human drama. The two extremes complement one another, the theatrical play creating something positive from the tragic experiences Wedekind presents...
...most human characters of the play giving genuine expression to the frustration, anguish and loneliness of his character. Also notable is Paul Martignetti (Hans Rilow), who performs one of the most difficult episodes of the play, a masturbation scene during which he lies alone, center-stage, delvering one of Wedekind's most passionate monologues with unsettling honest and emotional force. The rest of the cast energetically support and sustain the play through numerous changes of style and mood...
...Lulu, directed by Lee Breuer. Of all the best ART productions, this one raised the most hackles. Breuer applied shameless directorial pyrotechnics--literally and figuratively--to Wedekind's two Lulu plays, and of course to make a single evening out of them he had to cut and chop some. The production was, in the best sense, experimental; Breuer zeroed in on the essence of the myth Wedekind was working out in his plays--the rise and fall of a wild beast of sex--and tried to find a contemporary stage technology and idiom to match. He found it in touches...