Costume design for Ilse in Spring Awakening
Maker and role
Artist: Susan Hilferty, American, born 1953
Year
ca. 2006
Object detail
Media/Materials
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Accession number
2013.102.14
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Department
Location
Theatre production
Musical with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik. Based on a play by Frank Wedekind. Produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York, 2006.
Further information
With its frank exploration of adolescent sexuality, Spring Awakening brought new life not only to Broadway, but also to Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play. The musical’s rock music score and concert-style lighting underscored the timelessness of Wedekind’s theme, which had been a touchstone for German Expressionism. Colleagues at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, designers Susan Hilferty and Christine Jones brought insights from today’s media culture to the repressive world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.
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