Word: strindbergism
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Launching a new repertory company with Strindberg is a little like christening a ship with a bottle of cyanide. As if founding a repertory company these days were not enough of an act of courage! Just to increase the odds, the Massachusetts Center Repertory Company has chosen for its first production one of this most melancholy Swede's most dolorous plays, The Dance of Death...
...resilience of Colleen Dewhurst and the stoicism of Ben Gazzara cope with the killing pressure of acting out that marriage made in hell known as the Strindberg couple? This is the ultimate drama within the drama on the stage of Boston's Shubert Theater...
What a pair of demons Strindberg has mated here. An embittered captain of Swedish artillery and his frustrated wife, a former actress, are serving out time on a rock-pile island outpost. As their 25th anniversary approaches, they have perfected the purest hatred for each other. Like the most passionately obsessed lovers, they live in a universe where nobody else exists. The only other character in the play, the wife's cousin, who introduced them, serves merely as a catalyst to their anti-chemistry...
When Sweden put draconian tax regulations into effect in January, an early victim was one of the welfare state's leading citizens: Director Ingmar Bergman. Two policemen abruptly called Bergman from a Stockholm stage, where he was rehearsing August Strindberg's The Dance of Death, and hauled him away for interrogation on suspicion of having evaded payment of $119,000 in taxes. Although all charges were dropped last week, Bergman remained holed up on his bleak island home at Fårŏ, sunk in what doctors described as "a deep depression as a result of shock...
...which the family has been wandering blindly and from which the son is finally awakened--by the spirit of his father--is much more a nightmare. But to awaken from it can only bring death. It should be a nightmare in which the audience becomes as immersed, as was Strindberg in his own anguish. Although Naylor as the son succeeds in drawing the audience into his personal drama and DeLorme succeeds in adding to this a further dimension, one is rarely allowed to feel that universal pity that was so significant a part of Strindberg's awakening. The production lacks...