Description: Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced
Brief description: Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) had a seminal effect on the development of twentieth-centruy German drama. His plays portray a society riven by the demands of lust and greed, and his powerful writing continues to disturb and shock; his plays were still being refused a performing licence in Britain in the 1960s.
Review Quotes: "Scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry." --The Times of London