Christ Deliver Us!
Thomas Kilroy reworks Wedekind's adolescent tragedy in Ireland in the late 1940s or early 1950s, carrying its conflict over sexual knowledge and adult repression into a different historical setting.
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Thomas Kilroy reworks Wedekind's adolescent tragedy in Ireland in the late 1940s or early 1950s, carrying its conflict over sexual knowledge and adult repression into a different historical setting.
In sixteenth-century Genoa, the deformed nobleman Alviano offers the people his island estate, unaware that his friends use its grotto for abductions and orgies. Carlotta falls in love with him but is seduced by Tamare; when Alviano discovers her with Tamare, he kills him, and Carlotta dies calling for her assailant.
Lulu, rescued from street life and taken under the wing of Dr Schön, is married successively to Dr Goll, the painter Schwarz and Schön. Her relationships drive the men to death and culminate in her shooting Schön before being imprisoned. The play forms the first part of Wedekind’s Lulu pairing with Pandora’s Box.
Restless Franziska rejects marriage and bargains with the insurance agent Veit Kunz for two years to live as a man and pursue music. Under the name Franz, she enters a series of Faust-like entanglements; the five-act play consciously parodies Goethe's Faust while examining gender expectations.
Lulu’s first husband dies after finding her with the Painter, who later kills himself when he learns how she was exploited and married off. She marries Dr. Schön, whom she kills when he tries to force her to commit suicide. After escaping prison with help from Geschwitz, Lulu and Alwa flee to Paris, where a stock-market crash leaves them destitute in London. Lulu’s clients kill her, Alwa, and Geschwitz.
After escaping prison by a substitution arranged by Countess Geschwitz, Lulu leaves Germany with Alwa Schön. Their fortunes rise and collapse in Paris; in London, working as a prostitute, Lulu is murdered by a client known as Jack the Ripper, while Geschwitz dies after declaring her love.
In a repressive provincial town, adolescents struggle with puberty and sexuality while adults withhold basic knowledge and enforce severe discipline. Their discoveries lead to abuse, pregnancy, suicide, and punishment, as Wedekind challenges the culture that shapes their lives.
Anya Reiss relocates Wedekind’s drama to contemporary teenage life, following adolescents whose sexual curiosity and confusion collide with adult repression.
In 1845, sailor Arthur survives a shipwreck in the Arctic with help from Milak, an Inuit girl, and follows her back to her village, where disease has killed everyone but her father. A British explorer takes Milak to Wales, where she is displayed at a fair, abused, and eventually sentenced to hang. Arthur later calls on Milak’s spirit to protect the Inuit from the British ship, and dies at the helm as a storm ends.
Thomas Kilroy reworks Wedekind's adolescent tragedy in Ireland in the late 1940s or early 1950s, carrying its conflict over sexual knowledge and adult repression into a different historical setting.
In sixteenth-century Genoa, the deformed nobleman Alviano offers the people his island estate, unaware that his friends use its grotto for abductions and orgies. Carlotta falls in love with him but is seduced by Tamare; when Alviano discovers her with Tamare, he kills him, and Carlotta dies calling for her assailant.
Lulu, rescued from street life and taken under the wing of Dr Schön, is married successively to Dr Goll, the painter Schwarz and Schön. Her relationships drive the men to death and culminate in her shooting Schön before being imprisoned. The play forms the first part of Wedekind’s Lulu pairing with Pandora’s Box.
Restless Franziska rejects marriage and bargains with the insurance agent Veit Kunz for two years to live as a man and pursue music. Under the name Franz, she enters a series of Faust-like entanglements; the five-act play consciously parodies Goethe's Faust while examining gender expectations.
Lulu’s first husband dies after finding her with the Painter, who later kills himself when he learns how she was exploited and married off. She marries Dr. Schön, whom she kills when he tries to force her to commit suicide. After escaping prison with help from Geschwitz, Lulu and Alwa flee to Paris, where a stock-market crash leaves them destitute in London. Lulu’s clients kill her, Alwa, and Geschwitz.
After escaping prison by a substitution arranged by Countess Geschwitz, Lulu leaves Germany with Alwa Schön. Their fortunes rise and collapse in Paris; in London, working as a prostitute, Lulu is murdered by a client known as Jack the Ripper, while Geschwitz dies after declaring her love.
In a repressive provincial town, adolescents struggle with puberty and sexuality while adults withhold basic knowledge and enforce severe discipline. Their discoveries lead to abuse, pregnancy, suicide, and punishment, as Wedekind challenges the culture that shapes their lives.
Anya Reiss relocates Wedekind’s drama to contemporary teenage life, following adolescents whose sexual curiosity and confusion collide with adult repression.
In 1845, sailor Arthur survives a shipwreck in the Arctic with help from Milak, an Inuit girl, and follows her back to her village, where disease has killed everyone but her father. A British explorer takes Milak to Wales, where she is displayed at a fair, abused, and eventually sentenced to hang. Arthur later calls on Milak’s spirit to protect the Inuit from the British ship, and dies at the helm as a storm ends.