Thinking Theater NYC

EPIC Players ' production of Spring Awakening will run at A.R.T./New York Theatres , The Mezzanine Theatre, from May 9-19, 2024. Use code ‘SPRING’ for 30% off Spring Awakening tickets for May 9 – 19 at @artny72 My Whole Life’s a Test In Spring Awakening ’s most well-known, and often most-censored song, “The Bitch of Living,” a group of disaffected teenage students belt out lyrics describing their individual sexual awakenings and, more than that, their awakening to the idea that life is, perhaps, meaningless. Of course the sexual lyrics take the focus for the prurient, but the song’s expression of longing for some meaning to all of the pain is what sets the tone for the whole show. Indeed, the existential teenagers express, “God, my whole life’s, like, some test.” And the song ends with the gapping and emptying realization: “And, knowing this is it. God, is this it? This can't be it. Oh, God, what a bitch.” Last week I attended a rehearsal of EPIC Players ’ upcoming performan...