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Miss Julie--by August Strindberg. Directed by Hans Canosa. Leverett Old Library...
Miss Julie--by August Strindberg. Directed by Hans Canosa. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $3-$5. Saturday...
...influence of the women's movement on these plays showed clearly in one of the most outstanding productions of the semester, the double-billing of August Strindberg's The Stronger and Sybil Rosen's Curves. These short plays both dealt with the relationship of two women but were strikingly different...
...Stronger is not a feminist play--Strindberg is commonly considered a misogynist--but it portrays women whose lives are defined by their relations with a man (the unnamed husband of one, who had an affair with the other). As director Sonya Rasminsky '92 says, "if the man were to disappear, these women would have no relationship...
...most important accomplishment of the women's movement was helping to eliminate this kind of dependency. One need merely look at a newspaper to realize how much remains to be done, but there have been huge improvements in the condition of women in the hundred-odd years since Strindberg's play was written. That was the point of juxtaposing it with Curves...