Word: enquist
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...NIGHT OF THE TRIBADES by Per Olov Enquist...
...merely one of the uncommon virtues of Swedish Playwright Per Olov Enquist's admirable and unfailingly perceptive play that he makes this point abundantly clear. Another virtue is that he shows all that was puny, punitive, fearful and self-absorbed in Strindberg's nature and at the same time draws an utterly convincing portrait of genius on fire...
...Enquist's version the mistress be comes a beer-swigging lesbian, Marie Caroline David (Eileen Atkins), and the wife, Siri von Essen-Strindberg (Bibi Andersson), proclaims her love for her to Strindberg's horror, anger, jealousy and despair. The lines, mean and many, are sulfurous fumes straight from the marriage pit. In much of Enquist's play, Strindberg spews vitriolic putdowns at both women. These speeches are used to indicate the large feminine component in Strindberg's nature of which he was fully aware and which he wished to exorcise through a bludgeoning masculinity...
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