Spring Awakening
Almeida Theatre, 2021
Winner of Tony and Olivier awards for best musical, the first London revival of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s acclaimed musical, based on the ground-breaking and once-banned 19th century play by Frank Wedekind. Spring Awakening tells a story of adolescent anarchy, set to one of the most loved scores of the 21st century. A group of teenagers – silenced and controlled by a censorious society – discover a new world of feeling and freedom outside the classroom, with beautiful and devastating consequences.
Directed by Rupert Goold (Ink, Albion) with award-winning cast including Amara Okereke (Les Misérables) and Laurie Kynaston (The Son).
“Amara Okereke as Wendla matches him in tenderness and magnanimous trust; the scene where they make love (staged with the help of intimacy director, Ita O’Brien) has a touching clumsiness that makes it all the more affecting.”
What’s On Stage, 19 December 2021
Intimacy Director
Ita O’Brien for Intimacy On Set
