Word: strindbergism
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...brow, discovering a new wrinkle in Fate's design. The Shakespearean moment, in the tragedies, is the restoration of order after individual or civil turmoil; in the comedies, it is the lover's mistaken identity. In Ibsen, it is self-doubt besetting the stolid bourgeois; in Strindberg, it is a shrill cry of female hysteria; in Shaw, it is paradoxical argument overturning a pose. Germany's late Bertolt Brecht, one of the 20th century's remarkable playwrights, has his own typical moment. In play after play, through changing locales, characters and moods, the Brechtian moment...
...Swedish film Of Love and Lust takes its title from a book by Theodore Roik and comprises adaptations of two short stories by August Strindberg. This juxtaposition is appropriate, because the stories are valuable both as entertainment and as psychological studies. One, the story of dust, is a bitter, sardonic chronicle of a marriage without love, and the other, that of love, is a delightfully pointed satire, of Ibsen's A Doll House...
Period of Adjustment. Tennessee Williams, America's own Strindberg, turns marital counselor in an unprecedentedly optimistic work that displays more deftness than depth...
...original theater, and seems to be settling for a rehash of old material, plus a scattering of pseudo avant-garde plays. While this pattern has proven disappointing to those who still seek new blood and fresh ideas off-Broadway, it provides a comfortable combination of tried theatrical works (Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw most conspicuously), with thin, spicy plays designed to quench a respectable suburban thirst for Evil...
...demonstrations in connection with English 160, the HDC also offered public readings of Strindberg's A Dream Play, Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and the Don Juan in Hell Interlude from Shaw's Man and Superman...