Word: strindbergism
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...Neill's plays fall in between, and they exhibit his flaws rather than his virtues. For instance, ideas were like banana peels to O'Neill; he always seems to be picking himself up after having slipped on some thought of Nietzsche's or Strindberg's or Freud's. He was addicted to dramatic stunts-drums in The Emperor Jones, mannequins in The Hairy Ape, masks in The Great God Brown. Something of a Broadway swell and a nifty dresser, he aspired to be a flashy man-about-words, a self-described poet, no less...
...THEATER. Play Strindberg Tues. Thurs...
...THEATRE. Play Strindberg Tues.-Thurs...
Durrenmett, one of Bertolt Brecht's most skillful disciples, works for "epic theater"--theater that tells its story without attempting to delude the audience that it is actually happening. He has cut Strindberg's work up into small sections, added and subtracted material, and worked out changes in collaboration with the actors who first produced the work. There is typically Brechtian disrespect for the sanctity of the source, and a typically Brechtian effort at distancing the audience through frequent interruptions...
...times lines get caught in the cross-fire or slip into obviousness, the production is on the whole masterfully staged and acted. Play Strindberg is no great achievement; Durrenmatt's original works stand far above it and deserve more stagings of their own. But it is a solid piece of comedy and at the New Theater brings first rate professional drama to Harvard Square...