Musik

"It has an admirable choked quality, like a cry of despair suppressed" -The Guardian

A play from Frank Wedekind, a German dramatist. This version is translated by Neil Fleming. Set in Munich in 1906, a backstreet abortionist threatens to reveal the truths and secrets between lovers and friends."""Without crime I became a criminal. Without payment I became a whore"" Munich, 1906. Klara lives with her singing teacher and his wife. But when a backstreet abortionist is arrested, a secret emerges which theatens to destroy the household's respectability. Frank Wedekind was the great rebel of European theatre, best known for Spring Awakening and the Lulu Plays. In Musik he delivers a blistering attack on middle-class hyprocrisy and double-standards. This exhiliarating adaptation by Neil Fleming opened The Last Waltz Season at the Arcola Theatre, London in March 2005."