Strindberg Plays: 2
Strindberg Plays: 2

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1472574117

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The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays This volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (1901), which he described as 'my most beloved play, child of my greatest pain'; and both parts of The Dance of Death (1900), a terrifying analysis of a tormented marriage: 'it leaves an astonishing, an almost unaccountable, impression of genius ... as a beggar's cloak full of holes may have a kind of majestic beauty when the wind fills it, so this broken drama, having unmistakably the winds of vision in it, has beauty and dignity and power' (The Times, 1928). Also included is his earlier short play The Stronger (1889), a fascinating study of the power of personality."Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)

Miss Julie
Miss Julie

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0486111970

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One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Complete with Strindberg's highly-regarded critical preface.

Six Plays of Strindberg
Six Plays of Strindberg

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 1955

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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The Father; Miss Julie; The Stronger; Easter; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata.

The Road to Damascus
The Road to Damascus

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1775450406

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Swedish writer August Strinberg played a major role in introducing a more modernist sensibility into his native country's literature, producing several major novels and plays that are still regarded as some of the most significant works of twentieth-century Swedish literature. The Road to Damascus is a dramatic trilogy that broke new ground in stagecraft and characterization, touching on complex themes of spirituality and selfhood in the process.

Strindberg
Strindberg

Author: Sue Prideaux

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780300198065

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The author looks at the life of the playwright best known for the work Miss Julie, paying special attention to how real life inspired the ideas, premises and characters of his plays and other literary works.

Mies Julie
Mies Julie

Author: Yaël Farber

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-08-11

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1849437610

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South African born internationally acclaimed director and playwright, Yaël Farber, sets her explosive new adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of the Eastern Cape Karoo. Transposed to a post-apartheid kitchen – a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm-labourer, the daughter of his master and the woman who has raised them both. The visceral struggles of contemporary South Africa are laid bare, as John and Mies Julie spiral in a deadly battle over power, sexuality, mothers and memory. Haunting and violent, intimate and epic, the characters struggle to address issues of reprisal and the reality of what can and cannot ever be recovered. Mies Julie is the winner of a number of awards including, the Best Of Edinburgh Fringe Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and an Edinburgh Herald Angel Award. In December 2012, Mies Julie was listed in the Guardian's top ten best theatre picks of 2012 and in the Top Ten Plays of 2012 by the New York Times.

The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg

Author: Michael Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-09-24

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1139827448

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August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre – To Damascus and A Dream Play; and the Chamber Plays of 1908 which, like so much of his work, exerted a powerful influence on much later twentieth-century drama. His plays are contextualised for what they contribute both to the history of drama and developments in theatre practice, and other essays clarify the enormous importance to these dramas of his other work, most notably the autobiographical novel Inferno, and his lifelong interest in science, the occult, sexual politics, and the visual arts.

A Dream Play
A Dream Play

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781854598516

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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.