What is Spring Awakening about?

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.

Ticket Information

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Running Time

2 hours 25 minutes, including interval.

Cast & Creatives

(from the run at the Almeida Theatre)

Nathan Armarkwei-Laryea, Asha Banks, Taylor Bradshaw, Catherine Cusack, Carly-Sophia Davies, Kit Esuruoso, Laurie Kynaston, Mark Lockyer, Bella Maclean, Amara Okereke, Emily Ooi, Joe Pitts, Maia Tamrakar, Stuart Thompson, Zheng Xi Yong, Thomas Grant, Mali O’Donnell

Steven Sater (Book and Lyrics), Duncan Sheik (Music and Orchestration), Frank Wedekind (Original Playwright), Rupert Goold (Director), Lynne Page (Choreographer), Miriam Buether (Set Designer), Nicky Gillibrand (Costume Designer), Jack Knowles (Lighting Designer), Tony Gayle (Sound Designer), Finn Ross (Video Designer), Simon Hale (Orchestration), Jo Cichonska (Musical Director), David Gallagher and Justin Pearson (Orchestral Management), Ita O’Brien (Intimacy Director), Bret Yount (Fight Director), Deborah Andrews (Costume Supervisor), Carole Hancock and Nina Van Houten (Wigs, Hair and Makeup)

This production includes suicide, scenes containing some violence and scenes of a sexual nature, including allusions to child abuse. It also contains a firearm, a gunshot, the smoking of real cigarettes, flashing lights, as well as references to abortion. Age guidance 14+ but discretion can be applied.