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...Pelican” demonstrates the futility of “sleepwalking” through life in denial of abuse. This production of “Pelican” avoids sleepwalking in any form, and the cast and crew have navigated a difficult play with aplomb, galvanizing August Strindberg??s work with energy and passion.Running from March 16-24, “Pelican” is the product of an unlikely trio. Director Rowan W. Dorin ’07 and his crew, led by producers Xin Wei Ngiam ’07 and Currun Singh...
When Swedish playwright August Strindberg??s “The Isle of the Dead”—which forms half of this week’s Loeb Ex production—premiered in Sweden in 1907, it made a name for itself in only one way: as a tremendous failure. The play, which flopped, has rarely been performed in the almost 100 years since, and it has never before been seen by American audiences...
...August Strindberg??s The Father is a dark, deeply misogynist play. It tells of women’s deceitful, controlling nature that results in a man’s insanity, emasculation and ultimate death. But despite its objectionable bias, the play remains relevant today in its honest, albeit paranoiac, look at the core of sexual relationships...
...audience leaves this production with a feeling of incompleteness; there are no heroes and no answers to the difficult questions posed. But this is perhaps the greatest effect Strindberg??s play can hope to engender. Each character is too intricately rendered, and each struggle too complex to reassure us of our notions about men and women, good and evil. Instead, the audience must confront by curtain’s fall the glaring emptiness and disorder at the heart of human relationships, which the play, in this powerful and nuanced production, pries open...
...Golden Globes, and her resume including a lengthy stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company, that Helen Mirren is an actor of tremendous skill should come as a shock to none. It is nevertheless surprising that she is the true star of the latest Broadway revival of Strindberg??s Dance of Death, somehow managing to outshine her distinguished co-star, Sir Ian McKellen. With a flawless, expressive delivery, Mirren is radiant as a long-suffering wife who is part-demon, part-martyr...
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