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When Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s “The Isle of the Dead”—which forms half of this week’s Loeb Ex production—premiered in Sweden in 1907, it made a name for itself in only one way: as a tremendous failure. The play, which flopped, has rarely been performed in the almost 100 years since, and it has never before been seen by American audiences...
...months reading about Strindberg and perusing his work—but he has also retranslated them from the original Swedish with the help of Harvard Scandinavian Club president Maria E. Troein ’07. Strindberg, a contemporary of Ibsen, has long been written off as an insignificant playwright by English speakers mainly due to the sloppy translations of his plays...
Instead of being a docudrama about the tense near-win for the Red Sox that slipped right through Bill Buckner’s hands, the film follows an afternoon in the life of New York playwright, yet devoted Sox fan, Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton, “Batman”) as he hops from cab to cab on a sunny...
...metropolis. Tsotsi (which in Afrikaans means “Thug”) bumbles out of his existentially meaningless life of violence when he steals a car and only later discovers a baby in the back seat. “Tsotsi” is adapted from award-winning playwright Athol Fugard’s compelling and humanistic novel by the same name. Both Hood and Fugard cling tightly to literary motifs, using themes of “decency” and “identity” to develop the protagonist from a street-hardened boy to a compassionate...
Samuel Beckett is not a cheery playwright, and “A Few Rags of Love: An Evening of Samuel Beckett’s Shorter Plays,” the set of his short plays (“Catastrophe,” “Rough For Theater 1,” “Footfalls,” and “Rockaby”) which ran from Mar. 2-4 at the Loeb Ex, was no exception. Despite the brief show—the whole program was less than an hour long—producer Mark P. Musico...