Word: strindbergism
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...AUGUST STRINDBERG...
...When Strindberg's four-year-old son asked him whether God could see in the dark, the playwright answered: "No. but Papa...
...Strindberg's life and work was a long night's journey into night lit only by the searing flashes of his erratic genius. If his son had asked him for a definition of hell, he would have answered "Hell is women," for he was neurotically afflicted with the conviction that they were the demons at the heart of darkness...
...When Strindberg in all his intensity works, he devastates an audience. When he does not, he devastates the actors. Dewhurst and Gazzara auditioned for The Dance of Death by playing together in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but Edward Albee is to August Strindberg what bitter lemon is to vitriol. Uncharacteristically subdued, the stars struggle with the play as if remembering the lines and holding on to sanity required all their energy. One of the curses of guest-star repertory is insufficient rehearsal time for difficult plays...
...before the first-night curtain went up but also to gather together on its board of directors city hall politicians and Beacon Hill nabobs, to say nothing of Helen Hayes and Mrs. Curt Gowdy. Any group that can accomplish either of these feats ought to be able to survive Strindberg. Melvin Maddocks