Word: strindbergism
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...world has gone mad and we are all of it. What's worse is we made it that way. Or at least, that's the way of the world according to the master Swedish dramatist, August Strindberg. In truly modernist fashion, the world of August Strindberg's experimental masterpiece, Miss Julie, now playing with the Coyote Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, is a world where people search to create their own destinies out of the shards of the civilization left behind and the pitiful results of past human choices. In the preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg claims...
...course of the play, however, both predictably learn that degradation is not so easily overcome. Arciniagas infests Jean with the great passion of Strindberg's typical heroic, mythical, self-willed man. Yet along with this determination, Arciniagas recognizes Jean's uncanny brutality and sorrow as he yearns for a sky that he can't reach, a yearning that ultimately leads to a climactic confrontation with his mistress. Only through violence does Jean transcend Miss Julie. Only by degrading her into little more than a whore (through graphic directorial choices leading to a violent, on-stage rape scene that must have...
...being trapped within a slippery world where everything is dangerous and unstable. Although, in the end, a few overly strong directorial choices mar an otherwise subtle and beautiful production, director Jeffrey Mousseau and his fine cast and crew for the most part present a disturbing and moving rendition of Strindberg's masterpiece. If you've never ventured beyond the hallowed halls of Harvard to check out Boston's theater scene, consider looking to the Coyote Theater's production of Miss Julie for an intimate and startling introduction...
...events boiled but never simmered. Critics of PI have lamented that the show, like Crossfire or The McLaughlin Group, too often turns into a forum of white noise where few substantive ideas are presented. This seems akin to disliking Jenny McCarthy because she doesn't do Strindberg. Half hours of current-affairs television--especially those that feature Meat Loaf as a recurring guest--are not meant to leave us feeling as though we've sat down with an issue of Tikkun...
DIED. HUGO WEISGALL, 84, composer and teacher; in Manhasset, New York. The Czech-born son of a cantor emigrated to the U.S. in 1920 and became a tireless champion of American music. Setting moral dramas by Strindberg (The Stronger) and Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author) in English with a distinctive vocal line, he was one of the country's most influential composers...