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August Strindberg is one of the founders of the modern theater.
George Bernard Shaw considered him "the only genuinely
Shakespearian modern dramatist," Sean O'Casey called him "the
greatest of them all." And to Eugene O'Neill he was "the greatest
interpreter in the theater of the characteristic spiritual
conflicts of our lives today." Twelve Major Plays includes the most
famous and most characteristic Strindberg plays.This selection is
particularly interesting in its depiction of the great range of
Strindberg's moods and styles, from naturalism to expressionism,
from ironic comedy to bitter tragedy. It displays his great gift
for symbolic, mystical verse as well as his command of dramatic
prose. In issues of sex and gender, Strindberg anticipated the
modern temperament in society and drama alike.These translations
gave American readers their first opportunity to know the true
genius of Strindberg. Most previous versions in English had been
based on existing German translations. Elizabeth Sprigge's unique
achievement was to render the original Swedish texts into English
that is at once fluent and accurate and that captures the full
vigor and impact of the original plays.
Play something kitty-cat-ish . . . sweet. Imagine I've died and
you're galloping through fields. As their thirtieth wedding
anniversary approaches, Alice and Edgar are locked in a bitter
struggle. They've driven away their children and their friends.
Their relationship is sustained by taunts and recriminations. When
a newcomer breaks into the midst of the fray, their insular lives
threaten to spin out of control. We're all just bodies and when
we're dead we're worm food, but as long as your body keep going,
flailing or thrashing about, we are duty bound to fight, to scratch
and kick, until you're fucked. That's my philosophy. Laced with
biting humour, The Dance of Death is August Strindberg's landmark
drama about a marriage pushed to its limits, adapted in a thrilling
new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The Dance of Death opened at the
Bath Theatre Royal's Ustinov Theatre in May 2022 before going on UK
tour in an Arcola Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Royal &
Derngate, Northampton, Oxford Playhouse and Theatre Royal Bath
Productions co-production.
August Strindberg is one of the founders of the modern theater.
George Bernard Shaw considered him "the only genuinely
Shakespearian modern dramatist," Sean O'Casey called him "the
greatest of them all." And to Eugene O'Neill he was "the greatest
interpreter in the theater of the characteristic spiritual
conflicts of our lives today." "Twelve Major Plays" includes the
most famous and most characteristic Strindberg plays.
This selection is particularly interesting in its depiction of
the great range of Strindberg's moods and styles, from naturalism
to expressionism, from ironic comedy to bitter tragedy. It displays
his great gift for symbolic, mystical verse as well as his command
of dramatic prose. In issues of sex and gender, Strindberg
anticipated the modern temperament in society and drama alike.
These translations gave American readers their first
opportunity to know the true genius of Strindberg. Most previous
versions in English had been based on existing German translations.
Elizabeth Sprigge's unique achievement was to render the original
Swedish texts into English that is at once fluent and accurate and
that captures the full vigor and impact of the original plays.
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Miss Julie (Paperback, New Ed)
August Strindberg; Translated by Kenneth McLeish
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
Bored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce
the footman, but gets far more than she bargained for... August
Strindberg's classic naturalistic play Miss Julie was written in
1888, and first performed at Strindberg's experimental theatre in
Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1889, despite being banned by the censor.
This English version, translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish,
is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series. The
volume also includes Strindberg's Preface.
Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the
kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above
them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with
Jean. It descends into a savage fight for survival. Polly Stenham
reimagines August Strindberg's Miss Julie in contemporary London.
Julie premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2018.
August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies,
seduction and power – both written in the summer of 1888 – in
brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton. Miss Julie begins as a
flirtatious game between the daughter of a wealthy landowner and
her father's manservant, and gradually descends, over the course of
a long and sultry Midsummer's Eve, into a savage fight for
survival. In Creditors, young artist Adolf is deeply in love with
his new wife Tekla – but a chance meeting with a suave stranger
shakes his devotion to the core. Passionate, dangerously funny, and
enduringly perceptive, Strindberg considered this wickedly
enjoyable black comedy his masterpiece. Both plays premiered in
co-productions between Jermyn Street Theatre, London, and Theatre
by the Lake, Keswick, directed by Jermyn Street's Artistic Director
Tom Littler.
In the oppressive heat of Midsummer's Eve, Julie, daughter of the
lord, is drawn into a dangerous tryst with her father's butler. As
the night wears on, the couple, from opposite ends of the social
spectrum, dance, flirt and fight towards an explosive conclusion
that will shake the existing order to its core. Zinnie Harris's new
version of Strindberg's nineteenth-century masterpiece, Miss Julie,
relocates the play to central Scotland between the wars. The play
premiered at Platform, Easterhouse, in a National Theatre of
Scotland Ensemble production in September 2006.
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Miss Julie (Paperback)
August Strindberg; Adapted by Amy Ng
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R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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A new adaptation of Strindberg's thrilling psychological drama,
newly politically-charged in Amy Ng's adaptation. It's Chinese New
Year in 1940s Hong Kong. Julie is the daughter of the island's
British Governor. With her father away for the weekend, Julie comes
downstairs to join the servants as they party, initiating a
sexually-charged power game with her father's butler. What starts
as a game descends into a fight for survival as sex, power, money
and race collide on a hot night in the Pearl River Delta. This
edition was published to coincide with the premiere at Storyhouse,
Chester, in February 2020.
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The Red Room
August Strindberg
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R702
Discovery Miles 7 020
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One of the greatest classics of modern theater-the fateful drama of a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Inspired by the new ideas of naturalism and psychology that swept Europe in the late 19th century, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative edition complete with Strindberg's critical preface, considered by many one of the most important manifestos in theater history.
Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays.
Miss Julie is Strindberg's examination of power, sex, and class, set on a midsummer's eve in a nobleman's house and focusing on the shifting relationship between Miss Julie, the daughter of the house, and Jean, her father's manservant.
The Stronger is a short play that explores the complex range of emotions felt by Madame X when she encounters Mademoiselle Y, her husband's former mistress, at a fashionable café. Calling Mademoiselle Y worn out and evil, Madame X says that the triumph of her marriage proves she is the stronger of the two—even though these words ring hollow, as she attempts to deceive only herself.
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A Dream Play (Paperback)
August Strindberg; Adapted by Caryl Churchill
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R300
R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's
enigmatic masterpiece. Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of
Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism,
A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream: A young woman comes from
another world to see if life is really as difficult as people make
it out to be. Characters merge into each other, locations change in
an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image.
As Strindberg wrote in his preface, he wanted 'to imitate the
disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can
happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not
exist.' This version of A Dream Play, from a literal translation by
Charlotte Barslund, is by leading playwright Caryl Churchill. It
was first performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of the National
Theatre, London, in February 2005, in a production directed by
Katie Mitchell, with additional material by Katie Mitchell and the
company. Also included is an introduction by Caryl Churchill.
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The Red Room
August Strindberg, Annandreas
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R1,045
Discovery Miles 10 450
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August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known outside Sweden as a
dramatist, but he was also a prolific writer of novels, short
stories, essays, journalism and poetry - as well as a notable
artist and photographer. Although he spent many years abroad,
Strindberg was born, grew up and died in Stockholm and The Red Room
is perhaps the quintessential Stockholm novel. A satire of the
rapidly changing society of the 1870s, it was Strindberg's first
novel and marked his literary breakthrough: it offers, he said, 'a
panorama of a society I don't love and which has never loved me'.
It contains some of the great set-piece scenes in Swedish
literature, a gallery of unforgettable caricatures in the spirit of
Dickens, humour, pathos and satirical targets as apt now as they
were then. The Red Room is often called Sweden's first modern
novel, and it remains modern almost a century and a half later.
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Plays (Hardcover)
August Strindberg, Edwin Björkman
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R950
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