Cine: The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)

Principios del siglo XX. La directora de un colegio pupilo para señoritas, afincado en Thuringia (Alemania), interpretada por la legendaria Jacqueline Bisset, rige el instituto con mano más que firme. El protagonismo recae en varias de las chicas, que suelen recalar allí a edades muy tempranas y son educadas con fiera rigidez. Un espectáculo de ballet se presentará próximamente frente al príncipe germano (Urbano Barberini) y la institución está alborotada por tal oportunidad. Para ello, las alumnas luchan hasta la extenuación en pos del rol protagónico que le deparará la admiración real.

En un entorno tan hostil y en ausencia de compañía masculina, no es de extrañar que surjan entre ellas relaciones íntimas, aunque éstas sean rechazadas en esa pequeña sociedad en la que viven: Hidalla (Mary Nighy) suele compartir provisoriamente cama con Irene (Hannah Taylor Gordon) mientras que se rumorea lo mismo con Blanka (Emily Pimm) y Melusine (Anna Maguire); otras compañeras, de las cuales no se sabe ninguna relación similar, son Vera (Natalia Tena, la mismísima Nimphadora Tonks de la saga de Harry Potter) y Rain (Anya Lahiri).

Por desgracia, las jóvenes descubren que la directora mantiene una conducta sospechosa en un sector de la biblioteca y deciden seguirle el paso, pero las consecuencias de la intromisión iniciarán una serie de tragedias imposibles de eludir por las autoridades policiales... a menos que se haga la vista gorda.

La película, una coproducción entre Italia, Reino Unido y República Checa, ha sido dirigida por John Irvin y se basa en "Mine-Haha or Physical Education of Young Girls" (1903), libro del alemán Frank Wedekind, también autor de la obra, llevada al teatro, "Spring Awakening". La crueldad, la hipocresía y el abuso son los puntales de una historia tenebrosa a la que no le faltan momentos de erotismo e incomodidad.

Intellektuell oder moralisch defekt?

Wie haben Erich Kästner, Gottfried Benn und Hans Fallada eigentlich im Dritten Reich gelebt? Dominik Graf geht in seinem neuen Dokumentarfilm »Jeder schreibt für sich allein« dem Denken, Schreiben und Leben deutscher Schriftsteller:innen in der Nazizeit auf den Grund. Read the full article

Frank Wedekind - Spring Awakening

Risveglio di Primavera

Di Frank Wedekind

Ripresa video Claudia Gori

Montaggio Simone Chesi

73 Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind dir Stuart Carden for Strawdog Theatre. This show was an act of faith by all involved because we kept rehearsing even though we weren’t sure we were going to be able to perform it. In the end, through many hours of late night and early morning labor on the theater itself by heroes who showed up, we were able to get our PVA and and do the show. I am eternally grateful for the faith the actors and designers showed, it went above and beyond. The show itself was the play the musical was based on, all about coming of age in a society that represses sex and all knowledge of it, and how that destroys lives. I played a professor, a priest and the father of one of the protagonists. I’ll let you guess whether or not he was good understanding father. In the big scene I had with my wife, we were discussing what to do about our son as we got ready for bed and some perfunctory joyless sex. So I helped her out of her corset, and then she helped me out of mine. A uniformly talented group of folks, we spent many a night in Hugen Hall entertaining each other, whether it was the comedy stylings of Lawfer & Smith: Off the Rack/Hook or the T-Shirt making contest, and during the rehearsal process there was also The Late Night Club, which is pretty self explanatory. I would do curtain call as the priest so I could underdress my street clothes under the cassock. #retrospective #2003 #Springawakening #FrankWedekind #StuartCarden #strawdog #MrGabor #pastorskinnytum #professorstickytongue #losingyourhead #tshirtcontest #onanism (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6qWnD9JSiO/?igshid=nn28o1vt4kpo

La serata della prima rappresentazione del Vaso di Pandora a Vienna, il 29 maggio 1905, è uno degli avvenimenti che inaugurano il teatro moderno. Quella sera, dopo una lunga presentazione di Karl Kraus, la scena si apriva su una vicenda sconvolgente, che allora apparteneva allo scandalo e oggi alla mitologia: la storia della fine di Lulu, archetipo violento della femminilità. Quella sera Lulu era Tilly Newes, che con la sua interpretazione conquistò Wedekind e ne divenne poi la moglie e l’attrice preferita; Karl Kraus stesso aveva la parte di Kungu Poti, principe africano; il brillante saggista viennese Egon Friedell era un commissario di polizia e, infine, Wedekind aveva la parte che corona questa discesa negli abissi, quella di Jack lo Sventratore. Scrittore totalmente d’istinto, ma dagli istinti precisi, Wedekind irrompe con malagrazia nella storia del teatro, mostrando ciò che, allora, il teatro aveva quasi la funzione di occultare, e che indubbiamente non si rivelava in certi titanici, ma quanto timidi e prudes, campioni del moderno quali Ibsen. La carica sessuale che si era accumulata nella fine secolo, nascosta a fatica nella serra del liberty, dove la sessualità finisce per censurarsi nella nascita dell’astratto, esplode senza precauzioni con Wedekind. Le pedanti costrizioni del naturalismo vengono qui annientate proprio da un sovrappiù di crudezza nel materiale; e la vita bruta si rivelerà essere non una tranche de vie, ma al contrario qualcosa di inverosimile, che assume un tono di esasperazione astratta affine al teatro di marionette e al circo. E il riferimento a queste due forme, che sarà poi così ossessivo in tutta l’arte del Novecento, si presenta qui nella sua origine.... #libridisecondamano #ravenna #bookstagram #booklovers #bookstore #instabook #igersravenna #instaravenna #ig_books #frankwedekind (presso Libreria Scattisparsi) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1dC18So_ue/?igshid=1f54qggiyguwo

@marcsbrenner: #SpringAwakening by @theduncansheik and @stevensater @almeida_theatre It’s directed by @rupertgoold designed by @miriambuether costume by #nickygillibrand choreography by @lynnepagedance and lit by @knightknowles with video design by @finnrossvideo Intimacy coordinator @itaobrien_ The cast is led by @lauriekynaston #amaraokereke and #stuartthompson #marcbrennerphotography #theatrephotographer #theatrephotography #almeidatheatre #musical #musicaltheatre #broadway #frankwedekind #theatre

Spring Awakening Playing now through June 24 at the Cupcake Theater in North Hollywood. @cupcakestudios__ www.cupcaketheater.com 📷 www.jdcphotography.zenfolio.com #theatrelife #theatrephotographer #theatricalphotography #musical #springawakening #musicaltheatre #duncanshiek #stevensater #frankwedekind #canon #rebelsl1 #24-105 #losangeles #northhollywood #noho #nohoartsdistrict #latheatre #socal #socaltheatre (at Cupcake Studios)

Romance and Feminism

As with today, romance and relationships were a popular subject for fiction during the Victorian era and the early 20th century. Literature has long been used to highlight social issues such as social inequality, especially gender inequality. The period bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, known as the turn of the century, was a period of great change, specifically in views on…

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Still waiting on the Notes to the musical but you can clearly say that it is my fave I guess....🙊 {image description: 5 different books with 2 being in the center put over each other - a yellow on a green one. Above them slightly turned to the left a blue one and to the right a white one. Center bottom a black one with a bit red. The first three are german editions, the white one a french edition and the black one the musical lyrics to Frank Wedekinds Spring Awakening} #springawakenking #books #book #literature #classics #frankwedekind #deutscheliteratur

Intellektuell oder moralisch defekt?

Wie haben Erich Kästner, Gottfried Benn und Hans Fallada eigentlich im Dritten Reich gelebt? Dominik Graf geht in seinem neuen Dokumentarfilm »Jeder schreibt für sich allein« dem Denken, Schreiben und Leben deutscher Schriftsteller:innen in der Nazizeit auf den Grund. Read the full article

@marcsbrenner: #SpringAwakening by @theduncansheik and @stevensater @almeida_theatre It’s directed by @rupertgoold designed by @miriambuether costume by #nickygillibrand choreography by @lynnepagedance and lit by @knightknowles with video design by @finnrossvideo Intimacy coordinator @itaobrien_ The cast is led by @lauriekynaston #amaraokereke and #stuartthompson #marcbrennerphotography #theatrephotographer #theatrephotography #almeidatheatre #musical #musicaltheatre #broadway #frankwedekind #theatre

Spring Awakening Playing now through June 24 at the Cupcake Theater in North Hollywood. @cupcakestudios__ www.cupcaketheater.com 📷 www.jdcphotography.zenfolio.com #theatrelife #theatrephotographer #theatricalphotography #musical #springawakening #musicaltheatre #duncanshiek #stevensater #frankwedekind #canon #rebelsl1 #24-105 #losangeles #northhollywood #noho #nohoartsdistrict #latheatre #socal #socaltheatre (at Cupcake Studios)

Intellektuell oder moralisch defekt?

Wie haben Erich Kästner, Gottfried Benn und Hans Fallada eigentlich im Dritten Reich gelebt? Dominik Graf geht in seinem neuen Dokumentarfilm »Jeder schreibt für sich allein« dem Denken, Schreiben und Leben deutscher Schriftsteller:innen in der Nazizeit auf den Grund. Read the full article