Strindberg--other Sides: Seven PlaysStrindberg - Other Sides: Seven Plays presents fresh translations based upon the new national Swedish edition of Strindberg's works, hewing close to Strindberg's techniques of scoring his scripts for actors and directors. The plays are illuminated in introductory essays revaluating Strindberg's role in transforming theatre (and art) with his extraordinary new forms. The Ghost Sonata is a keystone in the construction of the expressionist theatre; in The Pelican Strindberg goes over the top with his own form of psychological drama until it soars beyond the realm of realism; The Dance of Death is a battle of the sexes rendered absurd, as a series of games played against the void; and Carl XII is an epic play portraying the last months of the king who brought Sweden's history as a great power to an end. Three one-acts from the late 1880s foreshadow the striking ambiguity of Strindberg's later works. |
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ADJUTANT ALICE Yes ARVID HORN ASSIR August Strindberg Axel Baron Görtz BENGTSSON BISKRA called CAPTAIN Yes Carl XII chamber plays character child COAST GUARD COLONEL comes COUNCILLOR Curtain Dance of Death DAUGHTER dead Die Walküre door drama Dream Play drink DWARF Edgar Edvard Brandes Emanuel Swedenborg EMERENTIA enters everything eyes father FEIF fire Fredrik Gerda Ghost Sonata goes GUIMARD GYLLENBORG hand hear hell HORN HULTMAN Hummel husband Ibid JOHANSSON KATARINA KING KURT Yes letter Listen live look majesty MALCONTENT MARGRET married Meidal Miss Julie MOTHER MUMMY never Ollén Olof Lagercrantz Pariah Pause Pelican sick silence Simoom Siri sitting sleep SON-IN-LAW speak standing Stockholm strange STUDENT Sweden SWEDENBORG Swedish takes talk TEACHER tell theatre there's things thought turn ULRIKA ELEONORA walks What's wife window woman writing wrote YOUSSEF