Word: strindberg
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...racist. The words are a feckless indulgence, corrosive to blacks and whites alike and to relations between them. Such rhetoric has given blacks a leadership that has built its career upon mere race-grievance agitation, and is therefore profoundly, almost unconsciously committed to its perpetuation. As in a hateful Strindberg marriage, each party somehow requires the abuse of the other. It is a catastrophic pattern. The lingering ghost of the plantation haunts...
...Johan August Strindberg...
...Cabot House, the boring, annoying wait is Creditors, a play written by the Swedish dramatist Johan August Strindberg in 1888. It's about a submissive artist (Patrick Harlan), his wife (Taimi Barty) and her dominating ex-husband (Ronnie Hernandez), all of whom take their respective actors' real names. With his marriage in trouble, Pat turns to Ronnie, his new and best male friend, for advice and consolation. But Pat doesn't know that Ronnie is his wife's ex and has his own designs on Taimi...
Also written by Strindberg and directed by Cabranes-Grant, Playing With Fire is the farcical story of a married couple, the husband's parents, the wife's lover, and a female servant whom every man on stage wants to bed. The couple's marriage has lost its passion. Kerstin (Emily Hsu) has fallen for the itinerant Axel (Paul Vietzen), while Knut (Alexander Franklin) spends a considerable amount of time in the garden with the servant Adele (Maria Padilla). Knut's father, played by a singularly hilarious Andrew Sean Kuan, divides his time reciting obscure biblical proverbs, trying to woo Adele...
Mamet's men talk for a living, and they talk to keep from telling the truth. In their four-letter world, lying comes with the territory. As the Old Man says in Strindberg's Ghost Sonata: "Silence hides nothing. Words conceal." Two of the salesmen, Moss (Ed Harris) and Aaronow (Alan Arkin), sit in a bar, grousing about the real estate company. It is as much a part of their job as sounding stardusted with sweet reason while on a pitch. Moss sketches an idea for a theft of the office, and later tells Aaronow he is implicated...