{"product_id":"lulu-1","title":"Lulu","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLulu \u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWedekind 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Lulu Plays\u003c\/em\u003e were published and produced throughout most of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNicholas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248549810520,"sku":"9781854594532","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781854594532.jpg?v=1777851026","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lulu-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}