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Author(s): Eszter Szalczer
ISBN(s): 9780203852880, 0203852885
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.66 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0203852885 
ISBN 13: 9780203852880
Author: Eszter Szalczer

Dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, and painter, August Strindberg’s diverse dramatic output embodied the modernist sensibility. He was above all one of the most radical innovators of Western theatre. This book provides an insightful assessment of Strindberg’s vital contribution to the dramatic arts, while placing his creative process and experimental approach within a wider cultural context. Eszter Szalczer explores Strindberg’s re-definition of drama as a fluid, constantly evolving form that profoundly influenced playwriting and theatrical production from the German Expressionists to the Theatre of the Absurd. Key productions of Strindberg’s plays are analysed, examining his theatre as a living voice that continues to challenge audiences, critics, and even the most innovative directors. August Strindberg provides an essential and accessible guide to the playwright’s work and illustrates the influence of his drama on our understanding of contemporary theatre.

August Strindberg 1st Table of contents:

Part I Versions of a life
1 Problematics of biography vs autobiography
Youth and early work: 1849–72
The young writer and old Sweden: 1873–80
Exile: 1881–83
The woman question: 1884–86
Battle of the brains: 1887–90
Wanderer through Inferno: 1891–97
Homecoming: 1898–1912
2 Between fiction and reality
Scapegoat and sacrifice
Constructing the writer
The maidservant’s son
Misogynist and madman
Part II A life in the theatre
3 The Scandinavian Experimental Theatre
Note
4 Strindberg and the Independent Theatre Movement The first productions
5 Strindberg and stagecraft Theory and practice
6 The Intimate Theatre
Part III Key plays
7 Naturalism and the modern character
The Father (1887)
Miss Julie (1888)
8 Dream-play dramaturgy and modernist allegories
The To Damascus trilogy (1898, 1901)
The Dance of Death I and II (1900)
A Dream Play (1901)
Notes
9 The last sonatas
10 Modernising history
Part IV Key plays/productions
11 Miss Julie From failed world premiere to worldwide acclaim
Breakthrough in Sweden: August Falck’s Miss Julie, 1906
Modernist giants of the Swedish stage
Alf Sjöberg: Miss Julie in Stockholm (1949) and on the screen (1951)
Ingmar Bergman: Miss Julie in Munich (1981) and in Stockholm (1985)
Miss Julie as political theatre
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Frankfurt, 1974
Miss Julie as anti-apartheid performance: Cape Town, 1985
Post-modern Miss Julie
The New Scandinavian Experimental Theatre: Miss Julie in Copenhagen, 1992
Anne Bogart’s Miss Julie, Louisville, USA, 1997
Notes
12 A Dream Play From closet drama to post-modern performance
Early productions: World premiere in Stockholm, 1907; German premiere in Berlin, 1916
Max Reinhardt directs A Dream Play: Stockholm and Berlin, 1921
Artaud’s A Dream Play, Paris, 1928
Olof Molander’s A Dream Play productions: Stockholm, 1935; Gothenburg, 1947
Ingmar Bergman’s A Dream Play in Stockholm, 1970, 1986; Mingei Theatre Company in Tokyo, 1978
A scenographer’s A Dream Play: Jarka Burian and Joseph Svoboda, Albany, NY, 198010
A Dream Play on the contemporary stage
Robert Lepage, Stockholm, 1994
Robert Wilson, Stockholm, 1998
Katie Mitchell, London, 2005
Post-modern dance theatre: Mats Ek, Stockholm, 2007
Notes
13 The Ghost Sonata and Strindberg’s haunting legacy
World premiere: Intimate Theatre, Stockholm, 1907
A theatrical revelation: Max Reinhardt’s The Ghost Sonata, Berlin, 1916
American premiere of The Ghost Sonata: Provincetown Playhouse, New York, 1924
Made in Sweden
Olof Molander’s The Ghost Sonata, Stockholm, 1942
Ingmar Bergman’s The Ghost Sonata productions: Malmö, 1954–Stockholm, 2000
Centennial production of The Ghost Sonata, Intimate Theatre, Stockholm, 2007

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