Word: strindbergism
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...questioned incessantly on Brecht's theatrical contributions. "People might think that a playwright is not popular until he is successful on Broadway," he observes, "but the student, interest, after all, reflects a real popularity. And when you think about it, Ibsen never was successful on Broadway; nor Strindberg; nor many truly great authors...
...Player's Repertoire" concerns an old road-acting couple who perform Priandello-like confusions of identity, with Claire Lu Thomas as leading lady. The style of "Limbo," according to Bellin approaches Strindberg's more closely than that of anyone else in contemporary theatre. Its author, Miss McGuire, has conceived what she calls "an ordinary, extra-ordinary, coffee shop...
...Over the years, it has committed some notable omissions, including Tolstoy, Strindberg, Proust, Valéry, Joyce...
...survival to the fact that it was staged by a determined repertory company known as the Living Theater, managed since 1951 by Julian Beck, 34, and his wife Judith Malina, 33. So far, Living Theater has produced some 18 plays, half new, half old, all experimental in their time-Strindberg's The Spook Sonata, Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, Pirandello's Tonight We Improvise, which now alternates with Connection...
...Strindberg is the forebear of O'Neill, Ibsen is the inspiration of Arthur Miller. Convinced that "a new production of the play on the tradition basis would truly bury Ibsen for good" Miller has made an adaptation of Enemy of the People that strips away much of the pedanty and Victorianism of the play. Yet the injection of the Miller touch and the attempt to up-date the speech and action undercuts some of the play's force and argumentative strength...