Word: strindbergism
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JUST A BARRELLOAD of shit on the way to the rose-beds." Edgar the need-up army officer in Play Strindberg, referring to his wife himself, marriage, life is general. That cheery thought illuminates the combat between Edgar, his failed actress of a wife Alice and a cousin Kurt who "coupled them up" 25 years ago, and now returns to contribute some of his banker's wealth and unction to the silver wedding anniversary Friedrich Durrenmatt's 1968 re-writing--or choreographing" as he terms it--of Strindberg's Dance of Death converts that play from a tragedy about marriage...
...among the choicest products of these years. At their dashing best, the letters read like mini-prefaces to the plays, minor skirmishes in the battle against the bourgeois that was the avowed essence of Shaw's art. Shaw laid down doctrine to his correspondents-who included Tolstoy, Strindberg and Mark Twain-like an Irish pope with a megaphone...
...into the theater. "I have a horror of anyone I admire watching me act," says Mia. "I have made him promise not to let me know when he comes." Does this presage more footlights in her future? Well . . . "I'd love to play Viola in Twelfth Night and Strindberg's Miss Julie-and of course I must play Juliet...
...Playhouse Biography: "A Search for Strindberg." Max Von Sydow plays the famous Swedish playwright. 7:30 p.m., March 25, Chan...
...Dance of Death. Strindberg's engrossing vision of marriage. The Loeb...