Spring Awakening
Student Production: Metro Theatre Company presents
Spring Awakening
Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
Danger and desires suffuse this haunting tale of a woman struggling for control in her relationships with men in her life. Set in 1930s Memphis, "Hoodoo Love" tells the story of Toulou, an aspiring blues singer who is driven to seek the power of hexes and hoodoo to bind one man to her and to escape another who is far too close.
This Victorian farce is much more than a comedy of crossed wires and mistaken identity. As a closeted gay man in Victorian England, author Oscar Wilde deftly infuses deception into the plot of Earnest as a mirror of the deception he was forced to live. In retrospect, the work is both a comic masterpiece and a brilliant encoding of “the love that dare not speak its name.”
Join us for Nigerian American playwright, actress, activist and professor Funmilola Fagbamila’s critically acclaimed one-woman performance on the complexities of Black political identity through a story about how humans navigate difference.
Come experience it live and be a part of the conversation.
Event is free and open to the public.