Word: strindbergism
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...Link is a bitter, anguished inspection of what Strindberg believed to be the inevitable sordidness of a basic human institution--marriage. Written when the playwright was experiencing perhaps the climax of the unhappiness and torment that plagued his life, the script at times writhes in agonized protest of both human and natural restrictions and institutions...
...laid out as if she were dying, so he would have to come to her for a last visit. Another time she threatened to shoot herself, and one of his fingers was shot off when he grappled for the gun. Munch's attitude toward women, like the playwright Strindberg's, was a curious mixture of lust and hate...
There hover over the play the tutelary figures of Strindberg, Hellman, the late O'Neill (especially Long Day's Journey Into Night), and the Sartre of No Exit. And why not? Albee was out to create a major work, and he might as well vie with the best. He has, in fact, come up with far and away the most impressive new American play to reach Broadway since Miss Hellman's Toys in the Attic three years...
...Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata" is at the Loeb Drama Center, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $2. The Charles Playhouse is giving "The Threepenny Opera," tonight at 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., and Sunday...
...Note: Mr. Babe has said precisely and thoroughly just what I was trying to express in my very awkward review. I never meant to Imply that we must see "The Ghost Sonata" through Strindberg's psychological history, or even that we must be aware of this history. That would be bad journalism and bad sense. But I did mean that Evil or not, a stage imposes some detachment on its audience, and that we can only overcome this detachment by seeing the play as "shifting states of mind" with which we can sympathize--"immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments...