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GOING TO A STRINDBERG play is always a theatrical gamble. Depending upon your constitution, you run the risk of overlooking the playwright's suggestion of religious redemption and emerging frustrated by the callous and fatalistic character nature seems to take. Moreover, depending upon the actors, you run the additional risk of getting depressed, and getting depressed slowly. Consequently, producers betting on a sure fire success tend to be wary of a Strindberg production...
...upperclass values. It isn't enough, for instance, for Jean to tell Julie that "love is a game we [the servants] play when we get time off front work;" he has to reiterate it to Kristine to the audience, and to himself. These, however, are faults of the playwright, not the cast, and encumbrances which the actors manage to handle well. Norris is particularly careful to keep his monologues from turning into didactic speeches, so that the characters dominate the themes, and not the other way around...
...Folksbiene Theater, and a dramatic adaptation of his story Shlemiel, the First just closed at the Jewish Repertory Theater. Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, has no illusions about the differences between drama and literature, however. "I don't feel as experienced as a playwright as I am at writing stories," he admits. "Still, it's never too late...
Harvard officials will meet this winter with representatives from the University of the South and the executors and trustees of Williams's estate to determine the final allocation of the deceased playwright's manuscripts and personal belongings...
Martin Michaelson, deputy general counsel for Harvard, confirmed that the two universities and the trustees of Williams' estate will negotiate the future of the playwright's belongings...