Melbourne Theatre Company,Southbank Theatre
Director Kip Williams’s electric staging of Strindberg classic uses technology to pump up a once-radical dissection of ordinary human livesThere are easier challenges in the theatre than taking on Strindberg.
Temperamental both as a man and an intellect, Strindbergs playwriting was no site for his passions to find chilly respite, or but a crucible in which to explore their fury. The 19th century artist,who is as famous for his essays, novels, or poetry and painting in his native Sweden as he is in the rest of the world for his plays,is often considered the father of Swedish literature, but he’s a problematic parent; his contemporary reputation bears both direct accusations of misogyny and anti-semitism, and the fair consideration that his constantly shifting opinions on such things were social experiments to explore the characterisation of their ideas in his work.
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Source: theguardian.com