Word: strindbergism
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...long tiers, the audience craned to watch the play as though peering from the ends of a bowling alley. But no one complained. Off-Broadway patrons have long since learned not to insist on comfortable surroundings. Any distress at last week's off-Broadway opening of August Strindberg's Easter was caused by the play and the production, not by the theater. To come off at all, the palely symbolic, poorly translated Easter-which creates joy out of the woe of a bedeviled Swedish family in the period from Maundy Thursday to Easter-needs not only sensitive acting...
...Ross's attempt at Strindberg was only a noble experiment, a flock of similar experiments were doing nobly in converted nightclubs and church basements all around Manhattan. This season, off-Broadway theater can look its uptown big brother squarely...
...great one. There is virtually no action; and the characters are on the whole rather two-dimensional. The entrances and exits are handled somewhat awkwardly; and the play's focus is not consistently clear. Ibsen had not yet reached that lofty fin-de-siecle peak that only Strindberg would eventually share with him. Nevertheless, no other play of Ibsen has so much sparkle and wit as Love's Comedy...
Miss Julie still asserts, after 68 years, Swedish Playwright August Strindberg's unflinching though unbalanced view of life. During those years, the theater has seldom offered bolder naturalism than Strindberg's or more psychopathic intensities, and never, certainly, a more implacable war between the sexes...
...been cast. I even read for the ingenue part in The Country Girl on Broadway (left out in the movie). The producer told me I really wasn't the ingenue type, that I was too intelligent looking." Then she read for the daughter's part in Strindberg's grim The Father. She got the part and won good notices, but the play lasted only two months. Grace went back to TV ("summer stock in an iron lung") to play in such varied offerings as Studio One, Treasury Men in Action, Philco Playhouse and Lights...