Nicholas Wright's version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic
masterpiece is the first to be based on the author's original text,
restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a
modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time. Lulu is
the story of the decline and fall of a young woman possessed of a
fatal combination of sexuality and innocence. She passes from
German and Parisian high society to the streets of Jack the
Ripper's London - destroying, and ultimately destroyed by, her
lovers. Wedekind originally wrote his extraordinary 'monster
tragedy' a full twenty years before the First World War. Finding
no-one prepared to stage it on account of its sexual candour, he
toned it down and rewrote it as two full-length dramas, which is
how The Lulu Plays were published and produced throughout most of
the twentieth century. Nicholas Wright's version, based on
Wedekind's original text, reveals the author's original conception
for the play. It was premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in
2001.
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