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Biographer Michael Meyer, accustomed to tamer Scandinavians (as in his 1971 Ibsen: A Biography), fails to address the fearful Strindberg paradox as forthrightly as he might. He is long on description, short and cautious on analysis. But in the process of collecting data from Strindberg's life and from some 75 volumes' worth of plays, novels, stories, poems, essays, diaries and letters, Meyer scatters all the fascinating and self-contradictory clues a reader could ask for. Strindberg emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with...
Plays with political agendas have largely passed out of fashion. Revivals of work by such impassioned advocates as Ibsen and Arthur Miller are often met with weary resistance, and few contemporary writers seek to emulate their manifestos. On one subject, however, the theater is ablaze with social concern: the deadly viral disease known as AIDS, which as of last week had claimed 4,906 lives and is worsening. At least seven productions around the country have dealt with its impact, particularly on the major risk group, male homosexuals. Actors from coast to coast have performed Jeff Hagedorn's monologue...
...richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some of the great Shakespearean roles and gave definitive performances in plays by Chekhov and Ibsen. His screen credits include Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Dead of Night (1945) and The Browning Version (1951). Knighted in 1959, Redgrave struggled to keep working and in 1979 made his last major appearance when, already nearly disabled, he played a wheelchair-bound stroke victim...
...ambitious teenager, she changed her name from Cicily Isabel Fairfield to Rebecca West, after one of Ibsen's strong-minded heroines, and then spent much of her life in the public spotlight. In 1912 she began a tumultuous ten- year affair with H.G. Wells and in 1914 bore him a son; meanwhile, her writing began to attract attention. She produced fiction, biography, history, criticism and a steady supply of journalism. She espoused feminism in its early wave and patriotism during the period after World War II when her native England reeled with self-doubt. Although she died...
...Cotton Club with all the terrific dancing put back in. A serious play? In August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a quartet of black gents sit around talking about music, women, and the demonstrable unfairness of life. Alas, Ma Rainey natters toward its climax like Ibsen gone funky, but it illuminates the talents of worldly-wise actors; one, Charles S. Dutton, spumes anger as the odd man out, striding, not shuffling, to his doom. A one-woman show? Catch Whoopi Goldberg, six monologues written and performed by a rag-doll actress with a bonkers stage name. Some...