Word: strindberg
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...issues of--you know, Brustein always used to say excrementalism, that just means shit obviously--that fascinates me, the same way that Brecht in his early plays obsessed with images of shit and sex, and every sexual character was a pimp or a whore...the same thing with Strindberg where he's always talking about the dirt, rising out of the dirt...
...other thing is that he's so personal...Strindberg's so personal, he's writing his autobiography through his work. The challenge to me was that if it is just him, him speaking through his work of himself, what is there for a director to find? Can you discover something outside of what Strindberg was saying...
Canosa: No, you're not wrong, but I went back to a transliteration of Strindberg that demonstrated that Strindberg really did use words like fuck and shit, because he was an excremental poet, but it wasn't well-received in the theater...
...August Strindberg's impressionistic Dream Play staged at the Loeb Experimental Theatre drew its audience into a dream world that sparkled with spontaneity...
...strength of the play lies in Canosa's portrayal of these superficial images of Earthly life and suffering as a dream. Throughout the forty minutes of the play, the overwhelming feeling is one of unreality, as though one were indeed sharing in the dream that Strindberg created. Chaotic, rapid, conflicting and often esoteric images are drawn upon by Canosa to convey this feeling of semiconsciousness...