Spring Awakening
Written by Frank Wedekind in a new version by Anya Reiss
Directed by Alice Wordsworth
The Linbury Theatre
Saturday 11 - Thursday 16 October 2025
A version by Anya Reiss
With thanks: With thanks to The Charlie Waller Trust, a charity who provides mental health and suicide prevention sessions.
Content warnings: Contains depictions of sexual activity, rape, pornography, masturbation, suicide, physical assault, self-harm, abuse, pregnancy, abortion and oppression. Contains explicit language.
Creative Team
Director
Designer
Assistant Director
Producer
Assistant Producer
Voice Director
Movement Director
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Fight and Intimacy Director
Composer
Alice Wordsworth*
Tara Usher*
Hope Wishart*
Rebecca Lyle*
Bobby Harding*
Jessica Hammett*
Adi Gortler*
Jackson Walsh
Rhianna Minhoca
Enric Ortuño*
Jack Baxter *
Cast
Ernst / Mr Gabor
Moritz Stiefel
Hans / Mr Sonnestisch
Wendla Bergman
Martha / Mrs Gabor
Melchior Gabor
Thea / Mrs Bergman
Ilse / Miss Twister
Saqib Bashir
Ben Boulton-Jones
Oliver Davies
Allaya Hagigal
Alecoe Haughey
Francis William Lie
Janita Mikkola
Jade O’Shaughnessy
Production Team
Stage Manager & Green Captain
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Production Manager
Production Lx
Dep Lx / Programmers
Production Sound Engineer Dep PSE
Production Carpenter
Deputy Prod Carpenters
Caspar Edwards
Kat Parry
Ash Vaughan
Phoebe Bennett
Holly Higgs
Sofia Altamirano
Simon Calahan
Tammy Cheng
Lucia Cohen
Arthur Moore
Ming Ong (GM)
Nic Usher
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
About the writer, Anya Reiss
Anya Reiss began her writing career in theatre with her debut play Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. She won the Most Promising Playwright Award at both the Critics Circle and Evening Standard awards that year, along with Best New Play at the TMAs.
Her follow-up play The Acid Test was staged at the same venue the next year, with her National Theatre Connections play Forty-Five Minutes following in 2013. Her original version of The Seagull, directed by Russell Bolam, was staged in 2012 at the Southwark Playhouse, and they worked on two further modern-day Chekhovs together - first at the same venue, then at the St James Theatre. Since then, Anya’s version of Spring Awakening has toured with Headlong, and her adaptation of Oliver Twist was at the Regents’ Park Theatre in 2017.
Anya’s new version of The Seagull - directed by Jamie Lloyd, and starring Emilia Clarke - opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the summer of 2022.
In television, Anya was the creator, executive producer, and writer of the Starz series Becoming Elizabeth. Previously she was a lead writer on Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge and a core writer on EastEnders. Anya is currently adapting A Doll’s House for the Almeida Theatre, and show-running a new original series for BBC.
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