Word: strinberg
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...student in the class played Tom from Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, another portrayed Strinberg's Miss Julie and another played Hickey from Eugene O'Neil's Iceman Cometh. One woman did a piece from a Greek tragedy entirely in Greek and another portrayed "a woman who basically was having sex with a decapitated head...
Both actors develop their characters particularly nicely in a scene in which the couple participates in an amateur production of Strinberg's The Father. The rehearsals are directed by an eccentric, egotistical fop (Jon Finlayson) who makes Patricia into his new protege and who takes the play so seriously that its absurdity is hysterical rather than pathetic...
...experimental or off-beat works that by their nature are only appealing to a small audience. For example, David Ross and the Fourth Street Theatre have made a very good thing out of producing a cycle of Chekhov plays, even though their recent production of Strinberg's Easter did not have the financial success of their earlier productions...
Leonid Andreyev's play is difficult to produce because of its resemblance to the Scandinavian drama, especially of Strinberg, which, if not handled with great finesse, can all too easily collapse into a conglomeration of heroics and absurd fantasy. In his contemporary Gorki, the intellectual depression around 1900 produced revolutionary ideas; in Andreyev it resulted in the almost morbid gloom of such works as "The Red Laugh...
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