Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outs for the modern adaptation of the Sophocles classic start tomorrow. Anouilh's play was first presented in Paris under the Nazi occupation in 1941, and according to the HDC was intended as anti-totalitarian propaganda...
...play rewrites Sophocle's language into colloquial speech; all its characters are in modern dress--the HDC is costuming its principal characters in evening clothes...
...along after Ibsen and who has since been praised by such dramatists as Shaw, O'Neill, and Thornton Wilder, who regard him as one of their teachers. Indeed, the position of Strindberg seems to have been set at half-way between Ibsen and O'Neill in the field of modern, naturalistic drama; and since the former spells death at the box-office and the latter is a commercial risk, Strindberg, by association, has been deprived of his place on the professional stage, (except in rare revivals of "Miss Julie," a one-act play...
Though "The Father" is a modern drama regardless of its age, (it was first produced in 1887), certain elements in the dialogue date it somewhat. One of these is Strindberg's preoccupation with scientific discoveries, particularly new theories in eugenics and pre-Freudian psychology, and he makes his characters use these as motivations for their actions. However, where O'Neill's characters are products of the laboratory and only clinically interesting, Strindberg's are stimulating to both the emotions and the intellect...
Though Bernard Shaw has called Strindberg "the only genuine Shakespeare modern dramatist," there is no need to go to the Plymouth in either a devotional or dutiful attitude. What you will see is a bitter, provocative, misogynic drama matched with a trenchant performance...