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Pains of Youth (Moore)

Full-Length Play, Drama

Ferdinand Bruckner, Daphne Moore

Vienna, 1923. A discontented
post-war generation diagnose youth to be their sickness and do their best to
destroy it. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical
students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking,
taunting, spying.

Pains of Youth (Moore)

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  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior

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Summary

Vienna, 1923. A discontented post-war generation diagnose youth to be their sickness and do their best to destroy it. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid, with half an eye on his former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the ruthless underdog Irene. Marie doesn't waste any time weeping - Desiree wants her.

  • Time Period 1930s
  • Setting

    Room in a boarding house

  • Cautions
    • Intense Adult Themes

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Ferdinand Bruckner

Ferdinand Bruckner
Ferdinand Bruckner, the son of an Austrian businessman, was born on August 26, 1891, in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied music in Berlin. In 1916, he discovered Berlin’s vast literary scene and switched his studies to poetry. He began his own literary magazine, called "Marsyas," a ...
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