Who wrote the play Pandora’s Box about the character Lulu?

Frank Wedekind wrote Pandora’s Box, the play about the character Lulu. The drama is the second part of his Lulu cycle, following Earth Spirit and continuing the story of Lulu’s destructive relationships.

Wedekind was a German playwright whose work challenged bourgeois morality and conventional theatrical forms. Pandora’s Box premiered in 1904, several years after Earth Spirit. The two plays were later adapted and condensed in different stage and film versions, which is why references to “Lulu” may point to the character, the cycle, or a particular adaptation.

G. W. Pabst’s 1929 film Pandora’s Box is based on Wedekind’s Lulu plays, but Wedekind did not direct or write the screenplay as a film production. His original dramas belong to German theater and explore desire, social hypocrisy, gender expectations, and the consequences of treating people as objects.