Philobiblon

Now up over on My London Your London is a review of Late Fragment, now playing at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Soho. It is a slick, emotionally wrenching production, if a little short on point.

Coming up soon will be a review of Spring Awakening, a fascinating, sophisticated production at the Union Theatre in Southwark. If you’ve got to choose, pick this one. It was written in 1891 by Frank Wedekind, 26, but not produced unexpurgated in the UK until 1874, and it is clear why – its critical view of Christianity, of parents’ treatment of children, and adolescent sexuality is seriously radical.