2014
DECEMBER
2014
Trinidad and Tobago
Miss Julie a promising start for new
production company
By Shivanee
Ramlochan
Digital Guardian, Thursday, December 28,
2014
The thwarted ambitions and frustrated sexual
scope of a woman’s desire were at the centre
of Fab Productions’ presentation of Miss
Julie: A Lust Story, staged at the Cipriani
College’s CLR James Auditorium on December
21. Men have been writing about, and
policing, female expressions of autonomy or
their deficit since before 1888, when
Swedish playwright August Strindberg
composed the one act, naturalistic drama.
Produced by Farrukh A Barlas, the play was
adapted for the Trinidadian stage and
directed by Errol Sitahal and Aryanna
Mohamad. On Christmas Eve, while peasants
drunkenly revel in the streets outside, Jean
(Vedesh Nath), a driver of humble origins
but with the aspirations of an arriviste,
conducts a dangerous flirtation with Miss
Julie (Rebecca Foster), the daughter of his
master, and the lady of the grand house.
While his fiancée, the house cook Christine
(Tishanna Williams), sleeps, Jean and Miss
Julie’s flirtations escalate past the point
of no return, and they must decide whether
to flee or confront the class cataclysm they
have wrought into being.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.tt/arts/2014-12-28/miss-julie-promising-start-new-production-company
Trinidad and Tobago
Miss Julie—Theatre with a difference
By Wesley Gibbings
Digital Guardian, Thursday, December 27,
2014
Veteran dramatist, Errol Sitahal and young,
promising theatre director Aryanna Mohamad
took a shot at August Strindberg’s 19th
century Swedish drama, Miss Julie, with a
youthful cast a week before Christmas on a
Cipriani College stage. It was the
significantly absent theatre-goers’ loss.
The business risk had always been high, the
theatrical risk even more challenging. Here
is a play set in the context of
post-manorial/feudal Europe focusing on a
covert relationship between the daughter of
a powerful and wealthy estate owner and a
senior servant/driver.
The relationship deepens and is eventually
consummated behind the back of the male
servant’s fiancée, Christine, who is played
by Tishanna Williams. It is finally
determined that Miss Julie’s suicide is the
only way out of the forbidden relationship.
The play has been described as being after
the tradition of “naturalistic” theatre
which strives for authenticity and resists
the temptation of the magical realism and
farce now well known on local stages. There
is nothing supernatural, no transcendental
message—simply a story of two people in love
in a situation of inequality and servitude.
The play has even borne a “Darwinian” tag to
emphasise its theme of survival.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.tt/entertainment/2014-12-27/miss-julie%E2%80%94theatre-difference
USA, (CA)
Review: Good performances can't save 'Miss
Julie'
By Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
Redding Record Searchlight, Dec 26, 2014
The battle of the sexes and classes rages on
in director Liv Ullmann's adaptation of
August Strindberg's infamous 1888 play "Miss
Julie." One tempestuous Midsummer's Eve
finds a vast country estate nearly
abandoned, save for the eponymous baron's
daughter (Jessica Chastain), John the valet
(Colin Farrell), and Kathleen the cook
(Samantha Morton).
The original play, borne out of Strindberg's
naturalistic phase, pits this privileged
woman, entitled and depressed, against the
arrogant, social-climbing valet. Miss Julie
was taught by her unconventional mother that
she is equal to all men, and that she should
hate them. John, intelligent and
well-travelled, meanwhile, imagines that he
is above his station in life and aspires to
escape.
Read more: http://www.redding.com/entertainment/review-good-performances-cant-save-miss-julie
Heidenstam skänker skönhet åt östgötarna
Av Rolf Bengtsson
Corren, 14-12-23
Ordet fritt – Correns krönikör Torbjörn
Gustavsson återkommer regelbundet till sin
idol August Strindberg. Senast i missnöje
över utebliven hyllning av en biografi.
Varje gång Gustavsson nämner Strindberg i
sina krönikor angriper han Verner von
Heidenstam och Övralid.
Varför en stor författare som Strindberg
behöver förminskning av en annan författare
för att hyllas är svårt att förstå.
Gustavssons naiva pladder, för att sänka sig
till hans nivå, är normalt sätt inte värt
att offra tid och tankemöda på om det inte
ställde till skada för Heidenstams rykte och
arvet efter honom.
Läs mer: http://www.corren.se/asikter/ordet-fritt/heidenstam-skanker-skonhet-at-ostgotarna-7622327.aspx
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USA
2014 Year in Review
Worst Movies of 2014: 'Tammy,'
'Amazing Spider-Man 2,' 'Exodus: Gods and
Kings' and more
HitFix ,
December 23, 2014
[...]
25. 'Miss Julie'
Worst scene: Any scene in the servant's
kitchen. And there are lots of them. Lots.
Why it's so bad it's bad: You'd think a
period piece with Jessica Chastain, Colin
Farrell and Samantha Morton could be
something good, right? "Miss Julie" proves
that wrong. Liv Ullmann's adaptation of
August Strindberg's play is one big bore
that is hindered by Farrell's
nails-on-a-chalkboard performance. Chastain
is the only one who really comes through
unscathed, but you know a movie is pretty
bad when you'd rather go to the dentist than
sit through it again in a theater.
- Gregory Ellwood
Link: http://www.hitfix.com/galleries/worst-movies-of-2014-tammy-amazing-spider-man-3-exodus-gods-and-kings-and-more
España
La señorita Julia (2014), de
Liv Ullman
Por Miguel Martín Maestro.
Culturamas, 23 diciembre 2014
Hay cine que nace muerto, como la imagen de
Ofelia en el cuadro de John Everett
Millais, hay cine que pretende engañar con
el espejo de la estética y la recreación de
ambientes perdidos en la memoria y olvida la
emoción y el sentimiento, hay cine que
piensa que la banda sonora consiste en
introducir bellas piezas de música clásica
aunque no sean contemporáneas de la acción,
y lo peor, hay cine que piensa que cualquier
actor sirve para interpretar cualquier
papel.
La señorita Julia es una película
desequilibrada, cuyo segmento inicial es
sostenido por una convincente interpretación
de Jessica Chastain, pero que en su segunda
parte termina contagiada por la inane y
absolutamente perdida presencia de alguien
muy limitado para personajes de fondo
dramático como Colin Farell, absolutamente
impostado, un fantoche vestido de librea de
nombre John que no alcanza a comprender el
significado de la lucha de clases interna
que circula por la obra de Strindberg, ni el
apabullante drama sexual de insatisfacción
que asola a la señorita Julia, su mala
interpretación termina contagiando a su
pareja cinematográfica.
Leer más: http://www.culturamas.es/blog/2014/12/23/la-senorita-julia-2014-de-liv-ullman/
Trinidad and Tobago
Tag Archives: Errol Sitahal
REVIEW: “Miss Julie”- A Slow,
Awkward but Much Anticipated Intro to FAB
Productions
By Triston Wallace
BreakTheProscenium, December 20, 2014
A NEW THEATRE COMPANY!!!! YESSSSS!!! Oh,
pardon me was that too loud? In case you
don’t know by now I am completely obsessed
with theatre, and when a new company comes
on the scene my heart leaps… perhaps for no
other reason than its existence value;
knowing that it is there diversifying our
theatre landscape enough to keep things
interesting and keep actors busy. I have
been awaiting the debut of Fab-Productions
(named after its founder, 25 year old
Farrukh Altaf Barlas) since they held
auditions for Eajmah, to see what they’re
all about. Farrukh is from Pakistan so I’m
very curious to what influences he may bring
to our local scene. Whatever the reasons
unfortunately, Eajmah did not make it to the
stage, but on 18th December 2014, at the
CLR James Auditorium, the company introduced
itself to the theatre going public with
August Strinberg’s 1888 naturalistic play,
“Miss Julie”. It is being directed by Local
Theatre Veteran, Errol Sitahal (who
apparently is also known for some
International films such as Harold & Kumar
goes to White Castle 2004 and Escape from
Guantanamo Bay 2008- I learned something
today) and recent UTT BFA Graduate, Aryana
Mohommed.
Read more: https://breaktheproscenium.wordpress.com/tag/errol-sitahal/
Trinidad and Tobago
'Miss Julie' comes to Cipriani
By Iana Seales
Newsday, Friday, December 19 2014
August Strindberg’s classic play, Miss
Julie, which explores gender power struggles
and socio-economic class divisions has been
adapted for local audiences by recent
University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT)
graduates who believe the issues are
relevant to Trinidadian society.
The play opened last Wednesday at the CLR
James Auditorium, Cipriani College of Labour
and Co-operative Studies, Valsayn and during
the lead-up to the opening, the team was
heavily promoting it on social media sites.
“This is an interesting play and when we
first started work on it we realised how
much of it is relevant to our own
society...the themes about love, gender and
class and others. We’ve adapted it for our
own society and we are encouraging people to
come see it,” said Vedesh Nath.
Read more: http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,204489.html
Trinidad and Tobago
Miss Julie comes to town
Digital Guardian, Thursday, December 18,
2014
One of theatre’s most performed plays comes
to Trinidad for the first time. August
Strindberg’s classic play Miss Julie
premieres this evening, December 18, and
runs until December 21 at the CLR James
Auditorium, Cipriani College, Valsayn. The
play is directed by local veteran,
award-winning actor and director Errol
Sitahal and co-directed by Aryana Mohammed.
The play follows the relationship between
Miss Julie (played by Rebecca Foster) a
noble-woman and her young servant, Jean,
(Vedesh Nath) on Christmas Eve night. Miss
Julie has just broken off her engagement to
her fiance, and is drawn to Jean’s charm.
She flirts with Jean in front of his fiance,
Christine (Tishanna Williams), and Jean in
turn encourages Miss Julie and flirts back.
Their relationship escalates when Jean
pretends to be in love with Miss Julie, and
persuades her to run away as it is the only
way they can escape their dark pasts and
even darker realities. But how far can they
run before the darkness consumes them?
Miss Julie has received awards globally and
is recognised as one of the most powerfully
and significantly written plays.
Call Box office 719-9102
Link: http://www.guardian.co.tt/entertainment/2014-12-18/miss-julie-comes-town
USA
The A to Z of Women in Film in
2014: Part 2
By Matthew Hammett Knott
Women and Hollywood, december 18, 2014
[...]
U is for Liv Ullmann
August Strindberg is widely acknowledged as
a misogynist with a problematic attitude
towards women. It surely, then, would have
horrified him to see a 76-year-old woman
reinterpret his classic Miss Julie, inspired
by the belief that female artists need to
reinterpret his work in order to expose what
is troublesome about it. For everyone other
than Strindberg’s ghost, it was a delight to
see Ullmann return to the stage this year,
subverting her reputation as Bergman’s muse
by taking on the directorial role herself
over no less than Jessica Chastain.
Link: http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/the-a-to-z-of-women-in-film-in-2014-part-2-20141218
Kulturkalender #18
Expressen 18 dec 2014
♥ Vem är vem i kulturhistorien? Fram till
julafton avtäcker vi 24 Hugo Raskar. ♥
♥ Lucka 18. August Strindbergs nyckelroman
"Svarta fanor" är en veritabel parad av
prominenta personer och radikala författare
ur sekelskiftets kulturliv med nya alter
egon. De skulle lätt kunna fylla återstoden
av kalendern. Ellen Key blev Hanna Paj, Anne
Charlotte Leffler fick heta Tilda K,
författaren Gustaf Geijerstam var Zachris
och konstnären Carl Larsson speglades i
Nyrax. Det roligaste namnet fick en
kombination av en journalist och en redaktör
på DN som kallades Smartman. ♥
Länk: http://www.expressen.se/kultur/kulturkalender-18/
España
La señorita Julia
Por Anton Merikaetxebarria
El Correo, 17 diciembre 2014
Los aficionados al teatro apreciarán sin
duda esta nueva adaptación cinematográfica
de la obra homónima del genial dramaturgo
sueco August Strindberg, escrita en 1888.
Los amantes del cine no tanto. ¿La razón?
Sencillamente, porque la cineasta noruega
Liv Ullmann (en su día una de las musas del
director Ingmar Bergman) se ha olvidado de
actualizar la obra en términos visuales.
Además, traslada la trama a Irlanda, con lo
cual pierde de alguna forma el ambiente
claustrofóbico nórdico propio de la obra en
cuestión. Así que Ullmann se limita a filmar
de manera correcta el ‘tour de force’
interpretativo de Jessica Chastain y Colin
Farrell.
Leer más: http://www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/culturas/cine/201412/17/senorita-julia-20141217144544.html
USA, New York (NY)
The Best of 2014: Dance Events
By Hedy Weiss
Chicago Sun-Times, December 28, 2014
[...]
LARRY YANDO IN “DANCE OF DEATH” AT WRITERS
THEATRE: Larry Yando is one of Chicago’s
finest and most tireless actors with a
unique ability to capture his characters’
body language. His half-deranged,
hallucinatory dance of life and death in
this play by August Strindberg lasted no
more than a minute. But it was a
masterpiece.
Link: http://entertainment.suntimes.com/stage/best-dance-events-2014/
Portugal
“O Sonho” volta ao Luísa Todi
Zoom, Dezembro
16, 2014
A peça “O Sonho”, de August Strindberg, está
de volta aos palcos numa encenação do Teatro
Animação de Setúbal, nos dias 27 e 28, no
Fórum Municipal Luísa Todi.
Baseada na obra homónima do escritor sueco
August Strindberg, de 1901, a peça, já
apresentada no final de outubro, convida o
público a assistir ao desenrolar de um sonho
e a fazer uma viagem profunda por um
ambiente onírico, com momentos de drama,
poesia e comédia.
Com encenação de Carlos Curto, a peça do
TAS, para maiores de 12 anos, que aborda
temáticas atuais, como a luta operária e a
arrogância do conhecimento, conta com
apresentações nos dias 27, às 21h30, com uma
sessão especial comemorativa do 39.º
aniversário da companhia, e 28, às 16h00.
Os bilhetes, a 5 euros, podem ser adquiridos
na bilheteira online do Fórum Luísa Todi,
através da páginawww.forumluisatodi.pt,
ou pelo telefone 265 522 127.
A produção conta com todo o elenco do TAS,
bem como com mais dez elementos que fizeram
um casting e um workshop de formação
promovido pela companhia de teatro.
Link: http://zoomonline.pt/o-sonho-volta-ao-luisa-todi/arquivo/13074
España
Se trata de una adaptación de la clásica
obra de August Strindberg
Los problemas de la mala
educación: "La señorita Julia", una película
de Liv Ullmann
Por Ricardo Hochet
Magazine Decine21, Jueves, 20 Febrero 2014
La señorita Julia, una magnífica película
que adapta la conocida obra teatral de
August Strindberg, es en el fondo una
película sobre la educación, o si se quiere,
sobre la falta de una buena educación.
Porque Julie perdió a su madre siendo una
niña, y su padre no ha sabido cuidar de ella
como es debido. La chica creció, pero
encerrada entre las paredes de la casa
señorial de su progenitor, un barón,
desconoce las realidades del mundo, ella es
muy vitalista, pero en realidad lo ignora
todo sobre la vida, le falta un punto de
necesario equilibrio para desenvolverse, y
su juego caprichoso e ingenuo con John, un
apuesto lacayo, va a desencandenar una serie
de pulsiones que atraerán la tragedia.
No es la primera vez que esta obra de teatro
es llevada al cine, hay una estupenda
versión sueca de 1951 de Alf Sjöberg,
ganadora del Festival de Cannes, donde
brilla en el papel protagonista Anita Björk.
Y también el británico Mike Figgis abordó la
obra en 1999 rodando en inglés con Saffron
Burrows, su esposa en la vida real, de
protagonista.
Leer más: http://magazine.decine21.com/noticia/102706/Reportajes/Los-problemas-de-la-mala-educacion:-La-senorita-Julia-una-pelicula-de-Liv-Ullmann.html
USA, New York (NY)
M-34 and Cloud of Fools’ ALL
THAT DIES AND RISES – Review
Ludus NYC – Your Ultimate Theater Resource,
Dec 16, 2014
All That Dies And Rises, now playing at the
IATI Theater, is a collection of vignettes
based on the writings of August Strindberg,
Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, and Charles
Bukowski. Seven cast members interpret these
works together through physical movement,
contortions, shadows, mime, and song.
According to the director’s note printed in
the front of the program, the creative team
was supposed to be staging a production of
August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. For whatever
reason, the show “fell apart,” and the
director was left with a creative team but
no play. Together, they created All That
Dies And Rises. While I commend the cast and
creative team for making the best of a
difficult situation, the resulting show is
very much unfinished.'
Read more: http://ludusnyc.com/tag/august-strindberg/
USA, New York (NY)
Erotic Play Smoke Extends Again at The Flea
Kim Davies' riff on August Strindberg's Miss
Julie is directed by Tom Costello.
By David Gordon
TheaterMania, Dec 15, 2014 • New York City
The Flea Theater has announced another
extension of of Kim Davies' acclaimed drama
Smoke, directed by Flea resident director
Tom Costello. Performances, which began in
August, will now run through February 1.
In this erotic play, Smoke, a contemporary
riff on August Strindberg's Miss Julie,
brings an entitled college student and a
jaded wannabe artist, who have more in
common than they thought, past their
breaking points. The production features
Stephen Stout, Madeleine Bundy, Ivan Dolido,
and Adelind Horan.
The creative team includes Andrew Diaz (set
design), Beth Goldenberg (costume design),
Daisy Long (lighting design), Lee Kinney
(sound design), and Jesse Geguzis (fight
choregraphy).
Link: http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/smoke-extension-flea-theater_71000.html
USA
Interview: Liv Ullmann Talks
Miss Julie (Exclusive)
By Karen Benardello
Shockya, December - 15 - 2014
Overcoming challenging adversities to fully
realize and achieve your goals and find
fulfillment can often become a daunting
experience for many people to overcome.
Academy Award-nominated actress Liv Ullmann
made her triumphant return as a writer and
director with the new drama, ‘Miss Julie,’
after last helming effort, the romantic
drama, ‘Faithless,’ was released in 2000.
‘Miss Julie,’ which is based on August
Strindberg’s 1888 play, captivatedly allowed
Ullmann to fully infuse her adaptation with
her relatable views about the ever-changing
dynamics between classes in society in the
independent film that was filmed entirely in
28 days. The drama also grippingly
chronicles how both men and women can
uninhibtedly capture their personal longing
for intimacy, even if their different places
in society discourages a personal
relationship between them.
‘Miss Julie’ depicts a fierce battle between
a man and a woman, and their struggle for
power and dominance enacted through a cruel
and compulsive game of seduction and
repulsion. Set on a country estate in
Ireland in 1880s, their seduction unfolds
over the course of one midsummer night, in
an atmosphere of wild revelry and loosened
social constraints. Miss Julie (Jessica
Chastain) and John (Colin Farrell), her
father’s valet, dance and drink as they
charm and manipulate each other. While she
is longing for abasement and he is polished
but coarse, they’re both united in mutual
loathing and attraction.
Read more: http://www.shockya.com/news/2014/12/15/interview-liv-ullmann-talks-miss-julie-exclusive/
Brasil
Aos 75 anos, Liv Ullmann se
sente como se tivesse apenas 20
EFEEFE, Yahoo noticías, 14 de dez de 2014
Toronto (Canadá), 14 dez (EFE).- Aos 75 anos
de idade, a diretora e atriz norueguesa Liv
Ullmann confessa que se sentir como se
tivesse 20 anos e que continua obsessiva com
o isolamento e a falta de comunicação entre
os indivíduos, o que explorou em seu último
filme, "Miss Julie".
Elaapresentou em setembro "Miss Julie"
durante o Festival Internacional de Cinema
(TIFF) da cidade canadense. Toronto tem um
significado especial para a artista, que
durante anos foi a musa do diretor sueco
Ingmar Bergman.
"Toronto me está tratando de modo
fenomenal", disse Ullmann à Agência Efe
durante um encontro pela estreia de "Miss
Julie", sobre a obra homônima de August
Strindberg e protagonizada por Jessica
Chastain, Colin Farrell e Samantha Morton.
Ela Ullmann explicou por que Toronto é um
lugar especial para ela.
Saber mais: https://br.noticias.yahoo.com/jogo-esmeraldas-liz-taylor-%C3%A9-arrematado-us-24-025806706.html
Paraguay
A sus 75 años, Liv Ullmann reconoce que se
siente como si solo tuviera 20
Última Hora, 14 de diciembre de 2014
A sus 75 años de edad, la directora y actriz
noruega Liv Ullmann confiesa que se siente
como si tuviese 20 años y que sigue
obsesionada con el aislamiento y la falta de
comunicación entre los individuos, algo que
explora en su última película, "Miss Julie".
Ullmann ha tardado el mismo tiempo en
dirigir un largometraje, 14 años desde su
anterior película, que en regresar a
Toronto, donde presentó en septiembre "Miss
Julie" durante el Festival Internacional de
Cine (TIFF) de la ciudad canadiense.
La realizadora reconoce que, pese a su edad,
se siente joven: "Puede que tenga 75 años
pero en mi interior tengo 20 años".
Toronto tiene un significado especial para
la artista, que durante años fue la musa del
director sueco Ingmar Bergman.
"Toronto me está tratando fenomenal", dijo
Ullmann a preguntas de Efe durante un
encuentro con medios de comunicación con
motivo del estreno de "Miss Julie", sobre la
obra homónima de August Strindberg y
protagonizada por Jessica Chastain, Colin
Farrell y Samantha Morton.
Leer más: http://www.ultimahora.com/a-sus-75-anos-liv-ullmann-reconoce-que-se-siente-como-si-solo-tuviera-20-n856061.html
España
La señorita Julia, según Liv
Ullman: una mirada muy personal
Por Horacio Otheguy Riveira
Culturamas, 13 diciembre 2014
Una versión cinematográfica espléndida del
primer gran drama social de la historia del
teatro. Un drama entre ama y criado,
atravesado por una pasión sexual que
aprovecha la licenciosa Noche de San Juan
para jugar a un juego de placeres encendidos
que en realidad no desean.
Es afuera, en el mundo de los campesinos y
los criados donde estalla la alegría del
amor y su libertinaje preferido. Pero en la
película no se les ve, sólo se les escucha.
En la película solamente deambulan los
cuerpos y las palabras heridos de muerte de
dos personajes de enorme interés,
interpretados maravillosamente por Jessica
Chastain y Colin Farrell, bajo la dolorosa
mirada de Samantha Morton.
Leer más: http://www.culturamas.es/blog/2014/12/13/la-senorita-julia-segun-liv-ullman-una-mirada-muy-personal/
España
LA PEL·LÍCULA DE LA SETMANA | LA SEÑORITA
JULIA
Per als amants del teatre
filmat
Por Carlos
Boyero
El País, 12
DIC 2014
Associem Liv Ullman, aquesta senyora rossa,
guapa (encara que gens sensual per al meu
gust), transparentment nòrdica, amb els
turments interiors i les boires
metafísiques, psicològiques o carnals del
cinema d'Ingmar Bergman. Va protagonitzar
nou de les seves pel·lícules i també va
tenir una filla amb ell. Era una actriu
poderosa, amb una capacitat notable per
expressar el patiment. Tenir molt viu el seu
record o que et resulti difuminat o pesarós
està en funció de les sensacions que et
provoqués el cinema de Bergman. És difícil
que la generació actual tingui accés a la
seva venerada obra, ja que les seves
pel·lícules no es reposen als cinemes i a
les televisions els deu semblar un acudit
surrealista exhibir l'univers de l'etern
torturat, ni tan sols en invisibles horaris
de matinada. M'imagino que el seu culte
només es pot alimentar a les filmoteques, en
DVD o a través d'aquesta cosa presumptament
màgica anomenada Internet, on, pel que
sembla, es troba de tot, de forma legal o
exercint de bucaners.
Leer más: http://cat.elpais.com/cat/2014/12/11/videos/1418302990_169470.html
España
Crítica de «La señorita Julia»
(**): Colin Farrell desentraña a Strindberg
Bien podría tratarse del boceto de un modo
de lo femenino moribundo y de un modelo de
lo masculino naciente
Por Oti Rodríguez Marchante
ABC, HoyCinema, 12/12/2014
En «Infiel», su anterior película como
directora, Liv Ullmann le arrojaba a su
historia hasta el último gramo del enorme
peso de Bergman en un alarde de fidelidad
más allá de lo físico; ahora, con Strindberg
se contenta, y no es poco, con serle fiel a
su texto aunque lo coloque en Irlanda (y le
adjudique un sorprendente blancor nórdico a
la Noche de San Juan). Esa colisión de
clases, de principios y de sexos en una
cocina de casa noble a finales del XIX no
encuentra otra interpretación por parte de
Liv Ullmann que la notable interpretación de
sus actores, que recorren de puntillas y a
trancos pasionales el texto teatral y
manosean los pormenores de ese mundo macho y
de dominación social que el último siglo y
pico se ha dedicado a desbaratar, o a
simular que lo desbarataba.
Leer más: http://hoycinema.abc.es/critica/20141212/abci-senorita-julia-opiniones-201412112101.html
USA
Swedish Auction House Sells
Work to Online Bidder For $1.9 M.
By Dan Duray
ArtNews, 12/12/14
The Financial Times reports that the Swedish
auction house Bukowskis has sold a work by
August Strindberg from 1894 to an online
bidder for SKr14.3m, or $1.9 million. Though
the opacity of these things can be tricky,
that would seem to make it the highest-ever
online auction total (even if the auction
itself wasn’t online), surpassing a Richard
Serra that sold in May for $905,000 at a
Christie’s online-only sale.
From the FT:
The Swedish auction house Bukowskis is
celebrating the sale of a previously unknown
painting by August Strindberg, a turbulent
seascape dating from 1894. “Storm Landscape”
had been in the same family since the
playwright gave it to his friend, the Danish
poet Sophus Claussen, in that year. It was
created when Strindberg was suffering from
writer’s block, a period known as his
“Inferno crisis”.
Conservatively estimated at SKr5m (about
$660,000), the work was chased by three
bidders to SKr14.3m ($1.9m) and went to an
online bidder — the highest price ever paid
for an internet art purchase in the country.
This isn’t, however, a record for
Strindberg: that was set in 2007, when
Sotheby’s sold another seascape for just
over $4 million.
Link: https://www.artnews.com/2014/12/12/swedish-auction-house-sells-work-to-online-bidder-for-1-9-m/
España
'La soledad es el mayor dolor'
Liv Ullmann, que estrena 'La señorita
Julia', habla del oficio de dirigir actores
bajo la larga sombra de su amante y amigo
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Martiínez, Toronto
El Mundo: 11/12/2014
"Los hombres, al contrario de las mujeres,
no ceden nunca. Quizá ésta sea la principal
diferencia entre un director y una
directora. Las mujeres estamos acostumbradas
a pactar, a ceder, a intercambiar cosas...",
dice Liv Ullmann justo después de negarse a
reconocer diferencia alguna entre su manera
de dirigir y la de los muchos directores que
ha conocido. Y ha sufrido.
-¿Se refiere a Ingmar Bergman, por ejemplo?
-No necesariamente [se ríe].
-¿No le molesta que haga lo que haga,
siempre alguien le mencione el nombre de
Bergman?
-En absoluto. Soy consciente de lo que él
significó tanto en mi vida como en mi
carrera. Pero, de la misma manera, sé que yo
influí en él de forma determinante. Nos
entendíamos incluso antes de que ninguno de
los dos llegara a pronunciar una palabra. Es
un halago, además de un placer, insistir en
él.
Leer más: http://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2014/12/11/54889668ca474152198b4571.html
USA, New York (NY)
Liv Ullmann talks directing
"Miss Julie"
By David Morgan
CBS NewsDecember 11, 2014
NEW YORK - "She is such a lost soul," said
director Liv Ullmann of the central figure
in her new film, "Miss Julie." Based on
August Strindberg's 1888 play (which was
originally banned in Sweden for obscenity),
it stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell
as two points in a doomed love triangle -- a
man and woman engaged in seductive,
domineering, even savage clashes of gender
and class.
Originally set in Sweden, the play's story
has been transplanted to Ireland
(accommodating both an English-language cast
and an environment similarly attuned to
class divisions). On the occasion of a
midsummer-night's revelry, a baron's
daughter (Chastain) engages in a
manipulative and sexual power struggle with
a servant, John (Farrell). Taught by her
mother never to let a man get the better of
her, Miss Julie challenges and mocks John,
who holds a caustic view of his superiors
and dreams of raising himself up beyond
polishing boots and serving drinks.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/liv-ullmann-talks-directing-miss-julie/
USA
Liv Ullmann: “It’s still so
difficult to be a woman in society”
The Scandinavian legend talks about her new
adaptation of Strindberg's troubled classic,
and its incendiary star
By Andrew
O'Hehir
Salon, Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014
You either switch out of normal gear and
adjust to the pace, the language and the
emotional intensity of Liv Ullmann’s new
film version of “Miss Julie” or you don’t.
This is not a movie that apologizes for
itself, or tries to make nice. It’s an
adaptation of an especially unforgiving
psychological drama by the infamous
misogynist August Strindberg, a swirling but
uneasy erotic triangle involving a bored
daughter of the aristocracy, her valet with
dreams of grandeur and the humble housemaid
the valet has promised to marry. And it was
adapted and directed by the legendary
Scandinavian actress, the former lover and
longtime collaborator of the late Ingmar
Bergman, who more than anyone else was
Strindberg’s cinematic heir (minus the
misogyny, or perhaps with the misogyny
inverted). I’m sure there many people these
days who have no idea who Ullmann is, or for
that matter who Bergman was, beyond some
severe caricature in black-and-white. All I
can say is that they changed my life, and
are still capable of changing yours.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/12/09/liv_ullmann_its_still_so_difficult_to_be_a_woman_in_society/
USA
Gone For Good:
The Long Lost Works Of English Literature
By Paul Anthony Jones
HuffPosts, 12/08/2014
Sadly it's not uncommon for writers and
authors to leave manuscripts unfinished at
the time of their death. Charles Dickens's
Mystery of Edwin Drood ends without the
mystery ever being solved. The 11 surviving
chapters of Jane Austen's final novel
Sanditon suggest that, had she lived to
finish it, it might have become her greatest
work. And Mark Twain famously attempted
numerous versions of his Mysterious Stranger
in the late 1890s and early 1900s, but
completed none of them before his death in
1910. But in some cases, a frustrating and
tantalizing gap can appear in an author's
back catalog when an existing work is lost
or destroyed, either intentionally or
accidentally, leaving us with little more
than fragments or descriptions of its
content. From ancient to modern, covering
almost three millennia, the stories behind
10 of literature's most intriguing long-lost
works are explored here.
[...]
The Bleeding Hand, August Strindberg
Although his entire creative output included
everything from novels and essays to
photographs and even paintings, it's as the
writer of some of the theater's most
powerful and challenging plays, like Miss
Julie and The Ghost Sonata, that Sweden's
August Strindberg is most widely celebrated.
He was also responsible for popularising the
so-called "chamber play" (a relatively short
work for a small cast and requiring limited
scenery) in the early 1900s, and wrote four
in his lifetime -- but it could so easily
have been five. In a letter to his friend
and translator Emil Schering in April 1907,
Strindberg wrote that, "Opus IV of the
Chamber Plays is in progress," but admitted
that, "it is more dreadful than the other...
it pursues me." Sadly, in a second letter
the very next day, Strindberg confessed to
Schering that he had "burned Opus IV, or
'The Bleeding Hand,'" calling its
destruction, "a self defense."
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-anthony-jones/long-lost-works_b_6271482.html
La señorita Julia
Liv Ullmann, directora de 'La señorita
Julia': "Me bastó reunirme una vez con
Jessica Chastain"
eCartelera.com
El curriculum de Liv Ullmann brilla con luz
propia. La que fuera esposa y musa del
legendario Ingmar Bergman se ha hecho un
hueco en el Séptimo Arte tanto delante de
las cámaras -ha sido nominada a los Oscar en
dos ocasiones-, como detrás de ellas. La
noruega vuelve a las salas de cine con 'La
señorita Julia', un drama protagonizado por
Jessica Chastain.
En esta entrevista con la directora y
guionista de esta adaptación de la obra
teatral escrita por August Strindberg nos
ofrece más detalles sobre la película y su
rodaje en Irlanda. También explica cómo
llegaron al proyecto sus protagonistas. 'La
señorita Julia' cuenta con un reparto
encabezado por Jessica Chastain, Colin
Farrell y Samantha Morton, y se estrena en
cines el 12 de diciembre.
Leer más: http://www.ecartelera.com/noticias/20529/entrevista-liv-ullmann-directora-la-senorita-julia-jessica-chastain/
USA
'Miss Julie' Director Liv Ullmann on
Adapting a Misogynistic 19th-Century Play
for 21st-Century Sensibilities
By Melissa Silverstein
Women and Hollywood, december 8, 2014
After making her film debut as a teenager
and gaining international fame by starring
in ten of Ingmar Bergman's movies (including
Persona and Scenes from a Marriage), Liv
Ullmann directed her first film, Sofie, more
than two decades ago. Since then, she's made
four other films and been nominated for the
Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the
Palme d'Or, as a filmmaker. Her latest film,
Miss Julie, stars Jessica Chastain, Colin
Farrell, and Samantha Morton, with Chastain
playing an Irish noblewoman who seduces her
father's valet (Farrell), who is already
engaged to another servant (Morton). Miss
Julie explores issues of systemic oppression
-- gender and class -- and how they shape
individuals' personalities and
possibilities.
Women and Hollywood spoke with Ullmann about
her new film's more-relevant-than-ever class
issues, the sexism she's encountered as an
actress-turned-director, and adding feminism
to a 19th-century play that begins with a
screed against women.
Women & Hollywood: Miss Julie is a tough
play; it’s got a lot of issues related to
women and class. Why did you pick Miss
Julie?
Read more: http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/miss-julie-director-liv-ullmann-on-adapting-a-misogynistic-19th-century-play-for-21st-century-sensibilities-20141208
USA
Interview: Liv Ullmann Talks Making 'Miss
Julie,' Gives Advice To Female Directors,
And Much More
By Nikola Grozdanovic
The Playlist december 5, 2014
It's that familiar time when everyone
scrambles to see as many of the past year’s
films as possible to get ready for year-end
lists, and get in on the award prediction
games. Meanwhile, small films end up paying
a big price due to lack of exposure. One
such film is “Miss Julie,” opening in
limited release today. It’s a film starring
Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell in the
lead roles, directed by the esteemed Liv
Ullmann, and adapting a classic play by
August Strindberg, so it seems to tick off
all the right boxes. When it premiered at
TIFF earlier this fall, we fell in love with
it for its passion, gorgeous look, and most
especially because of the performances from
the cast.
For those unfamiliar with the story, it's a
chamber piece set on a single location, a
Count's castle, relating events that
transpire over a single night. The count's
daughter, Miss Julie (Chastain), has grown
up in this castle, isolated from society due
to her precious aristocratic position, but
on this particular Midsummer's night, she
decides to mingle with her servants. She
spends the night clashing in a classic
battle of power, sex, gender, and class,
with her father's valet Jean (Farrell) and
the maid, Cathleen (Samantha Morton). It's a
timeless play that has been adapted for the
screen and stage many times, but never in
such a painstakingly raw manner as it by
Ullmann.
Read more: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/interview-liv-ullman-talks-making-miss-julie-gives-advice-for-female-directors-and-much-more-20141205
USA, Washington DC
Movies
‘Miss Julie’ movie review: A
power struggle with Jessica Chastain and
Colin Farrell
By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post, December
4, 2014
“Miss Julie” is a master class in acting
. . . for the stage. As a movie, however,
writer-director Liv Ullmann’s meticulous
adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 play
about class and power feels overwrought and
histrionic. It’s a performance big enough
for the balcony seats, squeezed into a
boutique cinema.
Don’t get me wrong. There’s not a thing to
chide about the emotional precision with
which Jessica Chastain delivers Julie, the
troubled daughter of an aristocrat who
flirts with, and then seduces, her father’s
manservant, John (Colin Farrell). Chastain’s
performance, which ranges from tipsy
coquettishness to suicidal distraction, is
clear and convincing.
But the character isn’t so much out of place
as out of proportion to the room.
Histrionics that would work on stage — not
just work, but wow an audience — here come
across as ostentatious.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/miss-julie-movie-review-a-power-struggle-with-jessica-chastain-and-colin-farrell/2014/12/03/c520afae-74de-11e4-bd1b-03009bd3e984_story.html
USA, Boston (MA)
Movie review
Liv Ullman adapts Strindberg in
‘Miss Julie’
By Ty Burr
Boston Globe, December 04, 2014
Did August Strindberg hate women? Liv
Ullmann thinks so — the legendary actress,
now 75, said as much in interviews at this
year’s Toronto film festival — and so she
has translated, adapted, and directed a film
version of “Miss Julie” to reclaim the title
character from her own creator. It’s a gutsy
move. If only it were a stronger movie.
Strindberg’s play first appeared in 1888 and
shocked audiences with its depiction of a
doomed midsummer night’s fling between the
aristocratic Miss Julie and her father’s
valet, Jean. It’s a two-act class war,
gender war, and raging psychodrama, and, for
an actress, it offers one of the great roles
in theater. Miss Julie is by turns
impassioned and imperious, dominant and
delusional — a cruel one-percenter and a
needy wretch. Cate Blanchett in “Blue
Jasmine” is just one of her descendants.
In Ullmann’s “Miss Julie,” the role is taken
by Jessica Chastain, who is ubiquitous in
movies these days and possibly spreading
herself a little thin. (The actress took the
part after the director’s first choice,
Michelle Williams, became unavailable.)
Colin Farrell plays the valet — named John
in this English-language version — and his
crisp black Irish looks contrast eerily with
Chastain’s milky skin and strawberry hair.
The subtitle to this “Miss Julie” could be
“The Red and the Black.”
Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2014/12/04/liv-ullman-adapts-strindberg-miss-julie/m4DxiyRS53w5HBeJ1bKG8M/story.html?p1=Article_InThisSection_Bottom
USA, Los Angeles (CA)
Review
In 'Miss Julie,' Liv Ullmann is
too faithful to Strindberg play
By Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times ,
December 4, 2014
The comely mistress of the manor is hot and
bothered, the homely cook is cool and
collected, and the dashing valet is desired
by both. In "Miss Julie," an Irish period
piece of class divides, sexual politics and
power games, things will end badly, one
suspects, though the denouement still
shocks.
Director Liv Ullmann — whose best work
behind the camera remains 2000's
"Faithless," written by the late great
Ingmar Bergman — begins with a potent troika
of stars in Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell
and Samantha Morton. These are always
exciting actors to watch, well equipped to
handle the intensity and intimacy of August
Strindberg's passion play, which Ullmann
adapts all too faithfully.
Set in the 1880s, Victorian-era morality and
propriety are quickly discarded, along with
caution and clothes, as one long, hot summer
night is overtaken by sweltering libidos. If
only "Miss Julie" could have shed the
strictures of the stage as easily.
It is a tortured triangle from the outset. A
winsome Julie (Chastain) taunts and tempts
John (Farrell), her father's handsome
serving man. By all measures of the time,
she is the one in control. Yet the valet is
as aware of his sensual appeal as he is of
his station, which makes him dangerous.
Though he's pledged to marry the proper cook
Kathleen (Morton), he's torn by his
complicated longing for the baron's
daughter.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-miss-julie-review-20141205-column.html
USA, Washington DC
Popcorn & Candy: Strindberg and
Helium Edition
Popcorn & Candy is DCist's selective and
subjective guide to some of the most
interesting movies playing around town in
the coming week.
Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain (Wrekin
Hill)
dc-ist, 2014-12-04
Director Liv Ullman reportedly channels
former mentor Ingmar Bergman in her
adaptation of August Strindberg's play about
an aristocrat's daughter (Jessica Chastain)
who encourages her father's valet (Colin
Farrell) to seduce her. The buzz is mixed.
Indiewire raves that the film "exists in a
special cinematic category; it’s toxic, it’s
hypnotic, and passionately translates
Strindberg’s genius instinct for
enlightening the multi-layered psychological
spectrums of human desire for lust and
power." The Village Voice has a more
measured response, writing that "There's
just enough bite in Chastain's arrogant,
tempestuous Julie to save the film from
being an arcane dramatic exercise with great
art direction."
Opens tomorrow at Landmark Bethesda Row
Link: http://dcist.com/2014/12/popcorn_candy_valet_in_a_spray_edit.php
Liv Ullman Takes on
Strindberg's Class-Focused Drama in 'Miss
Julie'
By Renée Scolaro Mora
PopMatters, 4
December 2014
Unlike the 1888 play on which it is based,
the opening moments of Liv Ullman’s Miss
Julie insists on contextualizing its title
character right from the start. Years before
the film’s main action, a rich little girl
(Nora McMenamy) reads aloud to herself about
“a glorious doll, so fair and delicate, she
did not seem created for the sorrows of this
world.” The child wanders through her
massive, empty country estate in Northern
Ireland, bored, lonely, and sad, yearning
for her dead mother. She climbs out a window
and runs for the woods, laughing but still
alone, she finds a glorious doll wedged high
in a tree. She smiles up at the doll,
weather-beaten and dingy.
And so we know: Miss Julie feels abandoned
by her mother’s death and her father’s
apparent absence. She’s at least a little
wild, uncomfortable with her privileged
place in life. It’s a lot of information for
the first two minutes of a film, but
effective, even if it’s not particularly
subtle. We feel sympathy for Miss Julie and
we’re primed to make excuses for her,
however she turns out.
Read more: http://www.popmatters.com/review/188851-miss-julie-liv-ullman-takes-on-strindbergs-drama/
България /Bulgaria
University of Sofia
Premiere of the book
"August Strindberg and XXI century"
On December 10, 2014 the University Library
hosted the premiere of the book “August
Strindberg and XXI century”, published by
the Department of German and Scandinavian
Studies to the Faculty of Classical and
Modern Philology with the financial support
of the Swedish Institute, Stockholm.
The present collection contains reports from
a Bulgarian-Swedish seminar with the
participation of scientists, teachers and
students from both countries, held at Sofia
University in March 2012, on the occasion of
the centenary of the death of the great
Swedish writer, a classic of the world
literature and playwright August Strindberg
(1849-1912). The publication aims to
contribute to the broadening and deepening
of the understanding of the personality and
the diverse activities of Strindberg in
different fields of art and culture, as well
as many aspects of the reception of his
works in Bulgaria. This gives the premiere
book properties that make it useful and
interesting not only for the academic
communities in Bulgaria, Sweden and in other
countries, but also for the wide range of
readers and lovers of the works of
Strindberg.
H. E. Ms. Helena Pilsas Ahlin, Ambassador of
Sweden in Bulgaria, was official guest of
the event and gave a welcome speech to the
participants of the event (download
speech).
The book “August Strindberg and XXI century”
was presented by Prof. Dr. Vera Gancheva,
who made a review of the activities of the
Programme in Scandinavian Studies on the
study and reception of August Strindberg in
Bulgaria and the organized scientific forums
in this regard. She stressed the rich
thematic content of the publication and its
practical value for Bulgarian readers and
theatre research in Bulgaria.
Link: http://www.libsu.uni-sofia.bg/news.php?extend.108
See also: http://www.swedenabroad.com/Pages/StandardPage.aspx?id=83820&epslanguage=en-GB
Canada, Toronto
Review: The Stronger Variations
Strong show
by Jordan Bimm
Now, December 3, 2014
THE STRONGER VARIATIONS adapted by the
company, directed by Allyson McMackon
(Rusticle). At Buddies In Bad Times (12
Alexander). To December 7. $27-$37, Sun
pwyc. 416-975-8555. See Continuing. Rating:
NNNN
Allyson McMackon's intriguing adaptation and
expansion of August Strindberg's 10-minute
experimental monologue keeps getting
stronger with each iteration. Initially a
hit at the 2005 Fringe, the show was
rejigged and revived in 2006 and again last
year by McMackon's students at York
University. This new production has grown
yet again, adding two new faces (Chala
Hunter and Andrya Duff) to the original cast
(Liza Balkan, Viv Moore and Lucy Rupert).
The show reinterprets and extends
Strindberg's 1889 original, a short chance
encounter between a woman and her husband's
mistress in a café on Christmas eve. The
dialogue is completely one-sided, the wife
delivering an epic guilt trip to the
mistress, who remains silent throughout. But
instead of a quick once-through, McMackon
provides a series of creative repetitions -
the titular "variations" - stitched together
with transitions featuring Rusticle's
signature physical theatre group movements.
The dreamlike result more resembles Samuel
Beckett's recursive take on infidelity, Play
- tortured souls condemned to relive fallout
from an affair - than anything classically
Strindberg.
Read more: https://nowtoronto.com/stage/theatre/review-the-stronger-variations/
USA
Liv Ullmann: Ingmar Bergman Had
"Greater Sins Than Being Unfaithful"
By Jeremy Gerard
Deadline, December 3, 2014
Updated Wednesday morning, with a few knots
untangled, below.
August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman both
came in for some bruising comments Tuesday
night courtesy of Liv Ullmann, the
actress-turned-writer and director with
intimate knowledge of both artistsâ genius
and foibles.
âBeing Scandinavian, of course, Strindberg
has always been familiar to me,â she told
an audience gathered at the Film Society of
Lincoln Center, where she was interviewed in
advance of the Friday opening of her own
adaptation of Miss Julie.
Read more: https://deadline.com/2014/12/liv-ullmann-miss-julie-jessica-chastain-1201306897/
Kulturkalender #3
Expressen 03 dec 2014
♥ Vem är vem i kulturhistorien? Fram till
julafton avtäcker vi 24 Hugo Raskar. ♥
♥ "Detta är en förfärlig bok." Så inleder
August Strindberg "En dåres försvarstal".
Och förfärlig är den. Ty det är svårt att
hitta en roligare skildring av ett
äktenskaps (och därtill en med tilltagande
vansinne belagd författares) uppgång och
fall.
Romanen, där författaren Axel gör sig
olycklig genom att äkta den patologiskt
opålitliga tribaden Maria, skrevs på
franska, censurerades på tyska och gavs
(officiellt) ut på svenska först 1914 - två
år efter Strindbergs död.
Verklighetens Maria, Siri von Essen, lär ha
haft lite tid att slåss mot skvallret -
Strindberg höll henne sysselsatt med idoga
försök att solka hennes namn samt att ta
deras gemensamma barn ifrån henne. En strid
hon för övrigt vann. ♥
Länk: http://www.expressen.se/kultur/kulturkalendern--3/
Strindberg-målning såld för 11,7 miljoner
SvD, 3 december 2014
En tidigare okänd målning av August
Strindberg såldes på onsdagen på auktion av
Bukowskis. Utropspriset för
âStormlandskapâ, som målningen heter,
var fem miljoner kronor och den gick till
slut under klubban för drygt 11,7 miljoner
kronor
Tre budgivare gjorde upp om målningen och
vinnaren deltog via nätet. Enligt Bukowskis
är det vinnande budet det högsta som lagts
online i auktionsfirmans historia.
âStormlandskapâ var ursprungligen en
gåva från Strindberg till den danske poeten
Sophus Claussen. Den 120 år gamla målningen
har hela tiden funnits inom en och samma
familj och hade legat undangömd sedan
1970-talet när den i höstas inkom till
Bukowskis.
Länk: http://www.svd.se/kultur/strindbergmalning-slog-rekord-pa-bukowski_4160577.svd
España
Nora Helmer y la señorita Julia, las
dos caras de la rebelión femenina
Teatro y cine actualizan a dos heroínas
escénicas de la rebelión de la mujer. La
cartelera teatral acoge dos versiones de
Casa de muñecas y Liv Ullman traslada al
cine La señorita Julia
Por Begoña Donat
Valencia Plaza, 03/12/2014
VALENCIA. El último cuarto del siglo XIX
asomaron a la escena internacional dos
modelos de emancipación femenina, los de
Nora Helmer y la señorita Julia. Ambos
personajes se rebelan contra el entorno
social que las oprime, la primera vÃa
portazo en Casa de muñecas, y la segunda con
su autodestrucción en la obra que lleva su
nombre. Sus autores respectivos, Henrik
Ibsen y August Strindberg, dieron un vuelco
a las artes escónicas decimonónicas cuyos
ecos resuenan en nuestros dÃas. El noruego
con su envite por el realismo, precursor del
teatro simbólico; el sueco, por su invención
del naturalismo, antecedente del teatro de
la crueldad y del teatro del absurdo.
"Ibsen estaba cuerdo, era progresista,
racional y formal. Strindberg era neurótico,
reaccionario, religioso y fragmentado. Los
dos eran necesariamente opuestos, pero
juntos sentaron las bases para el drama
moderno", explicaba el crÃtico de teatro de
The Guardian Michael Billington en su
artÃculo de 2013 The troll in the drawing
room.
Leer más: http://www.valenciaplaza.com/ver/144732/nora-helmer-senorita-julia-rebelion-femenina.html
USA
Miss Julie Movie Review
By Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer
Shockya.com, December - 2 - 2014 0 Comment
Miss Julie
Wrekin Hill Entertainment
Director: Liv Ullman
Screenwriter: Liv Ullman
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell,
Samantha Morton
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Miss Julie has it all: status, family
wealth, nobility, country estate, a valet
and a cook. Yet, during one midsummer night
in the late 1800s, on a country estate in
Ireland, her world comes crashing down after
making the wrong moveâ�socializing with the
help.
Her valet, John is not your ordinary
servant. He is well read, has traveled to
parts of the continent and has some upwardly
mobile aspirations. Lacking money, he views
Miss Julie as his ticket to leaving his
present employer and opening a hotel. He and
the cook, Christine, have some personal
relationship, which at times have a domestic
familiarity of marital bliss.
 Christine, the cook, works as a servant in
the estate and takes care of Miss Julieâs
and her dogâs needs. She also behaves in a
subordinate ways towards John, serving his
meals and preparing his cloths each day. She
does not have Johnâs aspirations and is
satisfied with her station in life: serving
others while going to church on a regular
basis.
Read more: http://www.shockya.com/news/2014/12/02/miss-julie-movie-review/
USA/Canada
Miss Julie Review
By Matt Donato
We Got This Covered, December 1st, 2014
If Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell
bastardizing love for two solid hours sounds
like cinematic gold, Miss Julie should
impress based on its avalanche of
period-perfect harlotry, seduction and
Celtic-accented insults. Adapted from August
Strindbergâs famed play, writer/director
Liv Ullmann takes us back to 1890s Ireland
to explore the feudal barriers that used to
prevent true loveâs connection, but if
Strindbergâs story is any indication, it
might have been for a good reason.
Every time you pray Ullmannâs characters
have finally come to a mutual decision,
their opposing counterpart unexpectedly
flies off the handle and delays an
inevitable ending for what seems like an
eternity. Thereâs more flip-flopping
between Chastain and Farrell than there was
between John Kerry and George Bush Jr.,
which becomes increasingly frustrating as
Miss Julie showcases the lifespan of a
horror villain who just wonât seem to die
for good.
Read more: http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/miss-julie-review/
Ireland
Special IFTA Events for
Christmas Season
By Deirdre Molumby
IFTN (Irish Film and Television Network), 01
Dec 2014
This December, the Irish Film and Television
Academy (IFTA) has organised a number of
events.
The first event of the month is a First Look
Screening of Irish feature â�Miss Julieâ.
IFTA members will be among the first in the
country to see the feature film at a
screening which takes place this Tuesday in
the Light House Cinema, Dublin. Written and
directed by the Academy Award nominated
director Liv Ullman, â�Miss Julieâ is
adapted from the acclaimed stage play by
August Strindberg and stars Colin Farrell,
Jessica Chastain and Samantha Morton.
Read more: http://www.iftn.ie/rep_bodies/repbodiesnews/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4287812&tpl=archnews&force=1
NOVEMBER 2014
USA, New York (NY)
David Grieg's CREDITORS to Open This Week With Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
Broadway World, off-off-Broadway, November 30 2014
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble (PTE) announces that it will be presenting August
Strindberg's searing domestic drama Creditors in the celebrated translation by
Scottish playwright David Grieg (Donmar Warehouse 2008; BAM 2010) for 6
performances only on Wednesday Dec 3 @ 8:00 pm; Thursday Dec 4 @ 8:00; Friday,
Dec 5 @ 8:00 pm; Saturday Dec 6 @ 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm and Sunday Dec 7 @ 3:00 pm
at the Wild Project at 195 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B).
Set at a seaside resort and written by Strindberg during an era when
electricity, Freud, Darwinism, and hypnosis were part of turn-of-the-century
"enlightenment," Gustav (Craig Smith) befriends an impressionable highly
successful young artist, Adolph (Josh Tyson). Under Gustav's relentless
questioning and mephitic suggestions, Adolph's fears of infidelity by his
novelist wife Tekla (Elise Stone) come ragingly to the forefront. It ultimately
becomes clear that the manipulative Gustav is scheming a psychological deadly
plot in this fatal sexual--part carnival funhouse--triangle.
Read more: http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/David-Griegs-CREDITORS-to-Open-This-Week-With-Phoenix-Theatre-Ensemble-20141130
España
Complicar lo complicado para nada
Por Javier Paisano
Diario des villa, 30.11.2014
Magale Prods con la colaboración de Teatros del Canal, La Casa Encendida, Circo
Price, Teatro Pradillo, Nave 73, El Curro DT y Festival Temporada Alta. Basada
en Acreedores de August Strindberg. Versión y dirección: Claudia Faci.
Intérpretes: Fernanda Orazi, Pablo Messiez, Claudia Faci y Mr. X. Iluminación:
Carlos Marquerie. Sonido: Óscar Villegas. Vestuario: Soledad Seseña. Música:
Óscar Villegas y Talking Heads. Dramaturgista: Jaime Conde-Salazar. Lugar:
Teatro Central, Sala B. Fecha: Sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2014. Aforo: Completo.
Al intentar acceder a nuestros asientos, un cartel pegado a la puerta de la Sala
B del Teatro Central nos indica que los cigarrillos que se van a fumar en la
obra no llevan tabaco. Esta señal debería haberme puesto sobre aviso de lo que
iba a ocurrir momentos después en el interior. Un anuncio así, una observación
de ese estilo, totalmente gratuita, nos estaba avisando que A-creedores de
Claudia Faci podía, por lo menos, pecar de pedantería. Y no es que peque es que
es un monumento a la misma.
Leer más: http://www.diariodesevilla.es/article/ocio/1911509/complicar/lo/complicado/para/nada.html
Canada, Toronto
Preview: Get Stronger
Strindberg play gets a feminist rethink
By Jon Kaplan
Now, November 26, 2014
The reputedly misogynistic August Strindberg would be surprised at what Theatre
Rusticle's Allyson McMackon has done with his short play The Stronger.
A Christmas Eve confrontation between a wife and her husband's mistress, the
script is an exchange of catty remarks and implied put-downs. In 2005, Theatre
Rusticle presented its first take on the material, combining movement and text
in a series of variations between the two characters.
McMackon and her company - including Lucy Rupert, Viv Moore and Liza Balkan, who
were in the original production - return to the material with new faces Andrya
Duff and Chala Hunter, again examining what strength means in the context of
female relationships and whether winning is what the exchange is about.
Läs mer: https://nowtoronto.com/stage/theatre/get-stronger/
THE STRONGER VARIATIONS by the company, conceived and directed by Allyson
McMackon, with Liza Balkan, Andrya Duff, Chala Hunter, Viv Moore and Lucy
Rupert. Presented by Theatre Rusticle at Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander).
Opens Thursday (November 27) and runs to December 7, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm,
matinee Sunday 2:30 pm. $27-$37, Sunday pwyc, some $20 rush. 416-975-8555.
”Ågust hade inte tyckt om statyn”
Efter att SvD sökte svar på hur August Strindberg uttalade sitt namn har läsare
hört av sig. Birgitta Jonsson berättar att hennes och författarens gemensamma
släkting alltid sade ”Ågust”.
Av Martin Mederyd Hårdh
SvD, 25 november 2014
Birgitta Jonsson hörde av sig till SvD för att delge sina långväga uppgifter om
hur Strindberg ville ha det. Hennes släkting Ada Svanberg, avliden sedan 1945,
berättade ofta för henne om hur hon lekte med August Strindberg när de var små,
säger hon:
– De var kusiner, eller hade gemensamma kusiner, och Strindberg var hos dem på
somrarna. I ”Tjänstekvinnans son” bor han hos släktingar på somrarna, till
exempel.
Det var under promenader i Tegnérlunden som Svanberg påmindes om barnaleken med
Strindberg, säger Jonsson. Där står Carl Eldhs staty av författaren, med en
atletisk kroppshydda.
– Den hade inte ”Ågust” gillat, sade hon alltid. Han som inte vågade klä av sig
inför de andra barnen när de skulle lägga sig, utan gjorde det i en garderob.
Hon sade ”Ågust” och jag har därför tagit det som att familjen kallade honom för
det när han var liten.
Länk: http://www.svd.se/kultur/10-kulturnyheter-tisdag-25-11_4133435.svd?sidan=1
"August” eller ”Ågust”?
Allt sedan Ingmar Bergman sade sig ha mött en förbannad August Strindberg i en
dröm har diskussionen rasat: Hur ska man uttala författarens namn?
När Augustpriset ska delas ut vaknar diftongdebatten till liv.
Av Martin Mederyd Hårdh
SvD, 24 november 2014
Delade meningar efter Bergmans dröm
Det var i en intervju med SVT 2003 som regissören Ingmar Bergman berättade om en
dröm han haft. I den tog han och August Strindberg en promenad på Karlavägen och
då ska författaren ha varit tydlig. Om någon uttalar hans förnamn med diftong –
som ”augusti” – blir han förbannad.
Med det i åtanke rättade Bergman bestämt SVT:s journalist: ”Ågust”. Och
diskussionen var i gång.
– Vill man vara personlig, och som Bergman respektera Strindbergs vilja, så
kallar man honom ”Ågust”, säger Anita Persson, som föreläser och anordnar
stadsvandringar i Strindbergs fotspår.
Hon menar att det framgår i brev och berättelser från författarens omgivning att
han vill uttalas med ”å”. Hon följer sitt eget råd:
– Man får ta egen ställning, men jag har umgåtts med Strindberg så länge nu att
jag kan vara lite personlig. Jag säger ”Ågust”.
Katarina Ek-Nilsson är ordförande i Strindbergssällskapet och är inte lika
övertygad. Hon säger ”August”.
Läs mer: http://www.svd.se/kultur/august-eller-agust_4121053.svd
USA, Toledo (OH)
Peach weekender | Theatre
UT presents new translation of ‘Miss Julie’
By Sue Brickey
The Blade, 11/20/2014
A 19-century wild child comes of age in the 21st century in a new production of
Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie at the University of
Toledo Friday evening.
Daniel Thobias, a University of Toledo assistant professor of theater and a
native of Sweden who resided there until 1994, has given the play new life with
his new translation that will premiere with this production.
”This translation is very rich and dramatic, very rich in the development of the
characters,” Cornel Gabara, UT associate professor of theater and director of
Miss Julie, said in a recent interview.
Read more: http://www.toledoblade.com/Peach-Weekender/2014/11/20/UT-presents-new-translation-of-Miss-Julie.html
USA, Toledo (OH)
World premiere of “Miss Julie” translation
By Joe Heidenescher, Associate Community Editor
The Independant Collegian, University of Toledo, November 18, 2014
What is the modern role of women? How do humans compete for life? Why do people
struggle to survive? These questions and others are addressed in August
Strindberg’s play “Miss Julie.”
The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and Film will present the world
premiere of “Miss Julie” as translated by Daniel Thobias.
“University of Toledo Assistant Professor of Theatre, Daniel Thobias, is a
native Swede, and his new translation of ‘Miss Julie’ captures the colloquial
tone and poetic nature of Strindberg’s language that is so often lost in English
translation,” according to a press release from Angela Riddel, promotions
specialist for the College of Communication and the Arts.
Read more: http://independentcollegian.com/2014/11/18/community/world-premiere-of-miss-julie-translation/
België
Filmrecensie: 'Miss Julie'
Dave Mestdach
Knack Focus, 19/11/2014
Deze adaptatie van het klassieke toneelstuk van August Strindberg is een intiem
kamerdrama over de dochter van een aristocratische familie (Jessica Chastain)
die het gezelschap opzoekt van haar butler (Colin Farrell) en zich net iets te
gewillig door hem laat verleiden.
★
Veertien jaar na haar Bergmanadaptatie Faithless kruipt ex-Bergmanmuze Liv
Ullmann nog eens in de regiestoel, dit keer met de geest van August Strindberg
als inspirator. Centraal in het gekendste toneelstuk van de Zweedse misantroop,
dat hier naar Ierland wordt getransponeerd, staat de clash der seksen en
klassen, geparfumeerd met een flinke scheut psychische waanzin die hier met
zoveel overgave en nog meer overacting verbeeld wordt dat Ullmann in
campterritorium belandt.
Leer meer: http://focus.knack.be/entertainment/film/filmrecensie-miss-julie/article-review-512103.html
USA, San Diego (CA)
SDSU Designers Make it Work
SDSU's version of Project Runway, The Jury, showcases students' top-notch work.
SDSU Newscenter, Tuesday, November 18, 2014
San Diego State University master of fine arts students and theatre
undergraduate students will be presenting their hard work to The Jury.
[...]
How it works
The event — now in its 31st year — is a competition in which three teams of
students collaborate on the production and design of a film or theatre
presentation. After working together for months, the students share their work
with a panel of prestigious theatre and film professionals in front of an
audience of other students and members of the community.
The Jury panelists evaluate the students’ work and provide valuable insight,
support and criticism.
All three teams begin from the same work of dramatic literature. This year, The
Jury will be based on August Strindberg’s incendiary one-act Miss Julie (written
in 1888), in a translation by the school’s own internationally-recognized
Strindberg specialist, emerita professor Anne-Charlotte “A.C.” Harvey.
Read more: http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news.aspx?s=75275
The SDSU community is invited to attend The Jury.
The event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21 in SDSU's Experimental
Theatre. It is free and open to the public.
Deutschland
Julie im
Monster-Käfig
Düster und
extrem:
Strindberg-Premiere
in
Saarbrückens
Alter
Feuerwache
Von Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus
Saarbrücker-Zeitung, 18.11.2014
Kein Rausch, kein Reigen: Christoph Mehler zeigt „Fräulein Julie“ als Horrorfilm
im anstrengenden Halbdunkel. Eine eigenwillige und unerwartete
Strindberg-Annäherung, die viel Beifall bekam. Am Sonntag war Premiere in der
Alten Feuerwache in Saarbrücken.
Eine übermütige Mittsommernacht in Schweden, Partytime: Die Sonne geht wohl nie
mehr unter. Doch es ist stockdunkel in Saarbrückens Alter Feuerwache. Das
Kaminfeuer glimmt fahlweiß. Es macht frösteln. Die aufgeschichteten
Plastik-Leuchtstäbe setzen ein abstraktes Zeichen in die Düsternis. Ein einsamer
roter Seidenvorhang, ein historisches Sprechrohr, rohe, schwarze Holzwände,
nacktes Mauerwerk (Bühne/Kostüme: Jochen Schmitt). Nun denn, eine krasse
Anti-Illusions-Bühne für Strindbergs „naturalistisches Trauerspiel“. Der
Regisseur befindet sich also auf Radikalkurs mit dem Üblichen. Das diffuse Licht
wird unsere Augen bis zum Ende dieses demonstrativ schmucklosen, ausgekahlten
Strindberg-Abends sehr anstrengen. Wir sind überhaupt ein wenig aufgerieben von
der Monster-Show, die in der Alten Feuerwache ein unstandesgemäßer Koitus
zwischen Grafentochter und Diener auslöst. Wäre das heutzutage nicht eher ein
Stoff für Familien-Komödien?
Lesen Sie mehr: http://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/nachrichten/kultur/Saarbruecken-Gruselfilme-und-Horrorfilme;art2822,5516730
Australia
Review: A Dream Play
How do you stage a dream? ARISE Theatre company resurrected August Strinberg’s
little-seen surrealist vision A Dream Play at Metro Arts’ Studio from Friday 7th
November to Sunday the 9th.
By Cecile Blackmore
Creative Drinks, On 17, Nov 2014
It was jarring, stumbling out of Metro Arts onto the Saturday night scenes of
Edward St, past cackling processions of hens’ nights and the unwashed charm of
the Vic, when you’ve just been drawn into the world of A Dream Play.
The original play was penned in 1901 by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. He
referred to it as “the child of my greatest pain,” originally penning it during
a near-psychotic episode in which he believed witches were plotting to murder
him.
Emerging creative collective ARISE Theatre Company have been in intense
rehearsal, in residence at Fortitude Valley’s youth space Visible Ink since
April. This might seem an excessive amount of time until you consider that the
ensemble of seven play a total of over forty characters between them.
Read more: http://www.creativedrinks.com.au/review-a-dream-play/
USA ,
Austin (TX)
The Best of the 2014 Austin Film Festival
By Tim Basham
Paste Magazine, November 16, 2014
This year’s Austin Film Festival again showed why aspiring screenwriters are
drawn to the event. Where else can you discuss screenwriting with the likes of
Matthew Weiner (Mad Men), Terry George (In the Name of the Father), Bill Broyles
(Apollo 13), Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) and Bruce McKenna (Band of Brothers)
just to name a few of the conference’s panelists, and all the while spend time
in a town that has become a dreammaker’s dream destination. While there were
several good films that premiered, here are a dozen deserving mention.
[...]
3. Miss Julie
In a slow-burn, dialogue-heavy adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 stage
play, writer/director Liv Ullmann does more to portray the imminent changes
between social classes (in this case, in Northern Ireland) than Downton Abbey
does over several seasons. Admittedly, I was prepared to be bored after the
film’s first five minutes. But by the end, I was somewhat impressed and by the
week’s end I found myself thinking that I had seen something quite remarkable.
Read more: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/11/the-best-of-the-2014-austin-film-festival.html
Deutschland
Im Silbersee der Gier
Theater Strindbergs „Scheiterhaufen“ brennt im Theater unterm Dach - Der Sohn
über den Vater: „Er hatte keine Freunde. Ein selbständiger Charakter kann keine
Freunde haben.“
Ein Nutzerbeitrag von Jamal Tuschick
Der Freitag 16.11.2014
„Der Scheiterhaufen“ - August Strindberg packt die Akte in einen Salon. Ihm
schwebt eine Chaiselounge mit purpurroter Plüschdecke vor. Er sieht die Palme
auf der Konsole. Mutter Elise sitzt als Witwe im Fauteuil. Sie wirkt apathisch,
sie könnte trauern. Sie hört Chopin, das Wetter spielt sich vor der Tür als
Elend auf. In Jonathan Gruners Inszenierung im Theater unterm Dach bleibt von
Strindbergs Interieur- und Regieanweisungen nur der Fauteuil. Die Alte zündet
Kerzen an. Sie ist hässlich aus Verdorbenheit.
Lesen Sie mehr: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/jamal-tuschick/im-silbersee-der-gier
Argentina
"Artista se nace, es así de arbitrario"
Maestro de actores, junto a sus colegas Alezzo y Gandolfo, volvió a dirigir
después de 15 años y hasta se animó a subir otra vez a un escenario.
Por Mercedes Méndez
Todo Show, 14/11/20
Vivió los cambios del mundo a través de la actuación. Augusto Fernandes es un
ícono, en la Argentina, de un modo de hacer y entender el trabajo del actor. Se
volvió un clásico, aunque en su época se hizo conocido por experimentar. En los
'60 era un intérprete de tinte comercial de radio y televisión, pero enloqueció
con el movimiento de teatro independiente y empezó a investigar.
Fue artista durante el peronismo, se exilió en Alemania durante la última
dictadura, vivió el auge del feminismo en Europa, estuvo en la caída del Muro de
Berlín, viajó a los Estados Unidos y se formó con Lee Strasberg, creador del
mítico Actors Studio. Acumuló todas las experiencias que pudo y se dedicó a
transmitirlas en sus clases. Ahora, después de 15 años volvió a dirigir y actuar
en el espectáculo Ojo por ojo, su propia adaptación libre de la obra Acreedores
de Strindberg. Tiempo Argentino pudo entrevistarlo.
Leer más: http://todoshow.infonews.com/2014/11/20/todoshow-173293-artista-se-nace-es-asi-de-arbitrario.php
Deutschland
„Seelenporno“ mit Fräulein Julie
Der Berliner Regisseur Christoph Mehler inszeniert Strindbergs Drama in
Saarbrücken
Von Silvia Buss
Saarbrücker-Zeitung, 14.11.2014
Leidenschaftlich und körperbetont geht es am Sonntag bei der Premiere von
„Fräulein Julie“ zu. Der Regisseur sieht in dem Stück nicht nur eine dramatische
Dreieckskiste, sondern einen ganz realen, aktuellen Klassenkampf.
Man könnte es auf den ersten Blick für eine Dreiecksgeschichte à la Virginia
Woolf halten, sagt Christoph Mehler über Johan August Strindbergs Drama
„Fräulein Julie“ von 1888, das der Regisseur gerade für das Saarländische
Staatstheater inszeniert. Da geht die hochherrschaftliche junge Dame kokett mit
dem Hausdiener ins Bett, während dessen Verlobte bei der Küchenarbeit
einschläft. Hinterher gibt's Katzenjammer. Selbst wenn sie selbstwusst glaubt,
zu ihm gutwillig herabgestiegen zu sein, so gelte sie doch fortan als
„gefallen“, hält Diener Jean der Julie entgegen und gleich noch das Rasiermesser
für ihren Selbstmord parat.
Lesen Sie mehr: http://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/nachrichten/kultur/Saarbruecken-Berlin-Jeans-Klassenkampf-Regisseure;art2822,5511979
Teatern fyller 60 – Dödsdansen sluter cirkeln
Av Ann Jornéus
SR, P4 Halland, 13 november 2014
Halmstad teater firar 60 årsjubileum ikväll och då sluts cirkeln – i dubbel
bemärkelse. Då framförs Dödsdansen, den Strindbergpjäs som också spelades på
invigningskvällen i november 1954.
Nu är det skådespelarna Görel Crona, Johannes Brost och Henrik Norman som äntrar
scenen.
Deras tolkning av Dödsdansen hade premiär i somras på Skottorps slott i Halland
och därefter har de framför den på Strindbergs intima teater i Stockholm.
– Hans ande svävade över oss, beskriver Johannes Brost känslan.
– Det var lite läskigt att göra Dödsdansen på samma tiljor där den hade sin
originaluppsättning, det känns som ett ansvar, säger Görel Crona.
Läs mer, lyssna: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=128&artikel=6017485
Canada, Toronto
Soundstreams & Canadian Stage to Partner for North American Premiere of
JULIE
Broadway World, Toronto, November 13
Soundstreams today announced its inaugural collaboration with Canadian Stage, as
the acclaimed theatre company revealed Julie, a chamber opera by Belgian
composer Philippe Boesmans, as one of the anchor productions of its
globetrotting 2015/2016 season.
Recognized internationally as one of the pre-eminent composers of his
generation, this marks the first time Boesmans' work will be performed in North
America. Based on the play Miss Julie by Swedish playwright August Strindberg,
Julie will feature an all-Canadian cast and will be directed by Canadian Stage
Artistic Director Matthew Jocelyn with music direction by Les Dala, whose most
recent appearance with Soundstreams saw him conducting the company's 30th
anniversary tour to China.
Read more: http://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/article/Soundstreams-Canadian-Stage-to-Partner-for-North-American-Premiere-of-JULIE-20141113
Deutschland
Profis und Laien auf einer Bühne
Von Stefanie Braun
Volksfreund, 2014-11-13
(Trier) Die studentische Theatergruppe Kreuz & Quer führt am Dienstag, 18.
November, erstmals ihr neues Stück "Ein Traumspiel" von August Strindberg im
Kasino am Kornmarkt auf. Die Laientruppe wird dabei von Profitänzern des
Stadttheaters unterstützt. Eine lohnende Kooperation für beide Seiten.
Trier. "Wir könnten uns auch vor sie knien und die Arme über den Kopf heben",
schlägt eine Darstellerin der Theatergruppe Kreuz & Quer vor. Mit ihren Kollegen
probt sie gerade das neue Stück der Gruppe, "Ein Traumspiel", das am Dienstag,
18. November, Premiere im Kasino am Kornmarkt feiern wird. Mit der Geste soll
nicht nur ein künstlerisches Statement gesetzt, sondern auch ganz praktisch
kaschiert werden, wie Marc-Bernhard Gleißner seine Schauspielkollegin Fiona
hochhebt. Während dieser Sequenz werden auch Tänzer des Trierer Stadttheaters
auf der Bühne dabei sein.
Lesen Sie mehr: http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/kultur/Kultur-Profis-und-Laien-auf-einer-Buehne;art764,4053942
España
Claudia Faci trae al Teatro Alhambra su visión de la obra 'Acreedores'
de August Strindberg
Una pieza que la directora ha rebautizado como A-creedores y que podremos
disfrutar el 14 y el 15 de noviembre
Ideales, Granada 12 noviembre 2014
Los días 14 y 15 de noviembre, la inclasificable actriz, directora, escritora y
bailarina Claudia Faci, de quien se ha llegado a decir que si viviera en Berlín
formaría parte de la programación habitual de la Schaubünhe, presenta en el
Teatro Alhambra su lectura de Acreedores del dramaturgo sueco Johan August
Strindberg, una pieza que la directora ha rebautizado como A-creedores.
La incansable creadora de vanguardia se atreve a explorar todo un clásico del
teatro. La obra, estrenada en Copenhague en el año 1889 y calificada por el
propio autor como una “tragicomedia en un acto y en prosa”, pertenece a la etapa
naturalista de Strindberg, considerado como el escritor y dramaturgo sueco más
importante de la historia.
Leer más: http://www.ideal.es/granada/culturas/201411/12/claudia-faci-trae-teatro-20141112174108.html
España
Claudia Faci trae a Granada su singular versión de 'Acreedores'
El viernes y el sábado el Teatro Alhambra acoge la interpretación de la obra del
sueco Strindberg
Redacción
GranadaHoy, 12.11.2014
El viernes y el sábado próximo la la inclasificable actriz, directora, escritora
y bailarina Claudia Faci, de quien se ha llegado a decir que si viviera en
Berlín formaría parte de la programación habitual de la Schaubünhe, presenta en
el Teatro Alhambra su lectura de Acreedores del dramaturgo sueco Johan August
Strindberg, una pieza que la directora ha rebautizado como A-creedores.
La incansable creadora de vanguardia se atreve a explorar todo un clásico del
teatro. La obra, estrenada en Copenhague en el año 1889 y calificada por el
propio autor como una "tragicomedia en un acto y en prosa", pertenece a la etapa
naturalista de Strindberg, considerado como el escritor y dramaturgo sueco más
importante de la historia.
Leer más: http://www.granadahoy.com/article/ocio/1898266/claudia/faci/trae/granada/su/singular/version/acreedores.html
Deutschland
„Ein Traumspiel“ – Strindbergs Drama getanzt
von redaktion
lokalo, Nov 11, 2014
TRIER. Eigentlich ist “Ein Traumspiel” von August Strindberg ein Schauspiel, das
1907 in Stockholm seine Uraufführung hatte. Die Theatergruppe “Kreuz&Quer”
interpretiert das Stück in Kooperation mit Mitgliedern des Trierer Tanztheaters
als in getanzter Form.
Strindbergs Werke sind düster, wie die schwedische Nacht dunkel ist. Und trotz
der Botschaft, dass sich die Menschen das Leben zur Hölle machen, stecken in
Strindbergs Dramen ein Schimmer von Hoffnung und Lebenssinn. Ganz besonders
findet sich diese Hoffnung in „Ein Traumspiel“ wieder, in dem Agnes, die
Tochter des indischen Gottes Indra beschließt, zu den Menschen hinabzusteigen.
Doch schnell stellt Agnes fest: „Es ist schade um die Menschen!“ Versuchte sie
am Anfang den Menschen liebendes Mitleid entgegenzubringen, endet sie zum
Schluss auf einer Pest-Insel in absoluter Isolation. Diese Geschichte bringt
Kreuz&Quer gemeinsam mit Ensemble-Mitgliedern des Tanztheater Triers im November
im Kasino am Kornmarkt auf die Bühne. Premiere ist am Dienstag, den 18.
November, um 19 Uhr.
Lesen Sie mehr: http://lokalo.de/artikel/76638/ein-traumspiel-strindbergs
USA ,
Chicago (ILL)
Filmmaker Interview: Liv Ullmann
By Michael Gloversmith
White City Cinema, November 10, 2014
At last month’s Chicago International Film Festival I had the great pleasure of
interviewing legendary actress and filmmaker Liv Ullmann after the U.S. premiere
of her new film adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. During an
hour-long round-table discussion (in which three other writers participated),
she came across as warm, funny, compassionate and wise in speaking about
everything from her charity work to her collaborations with Ingmar Bergman. I
am, however, only including the portions of the interview that involved my
direct interactions with her, which mainly concerned Miss Julie, the method
acting of her lead actress Jessica Chastain, and her old friend and former
director Jan Troell.
Read more: http://whitecitycinema.com/tag/august-strindberg/
USA, Minnealpolis-St. Paul (MN)
THEATER REVIEW
Nimbus Theatre translates August Strindberg's "Ghost Sonata"
By Betsy Gabler
TC Daily Planet, November 10, 2014
nimbus theatre, located in NE Minneapolis, is currently featuring a
fantastically surreal Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg. Rarely translated to
English, well, probably any language these days, it's a rare chance to see an
undersold classic.
Per nimbus's website: "Strindberg unflinchingly squires us through a strange
maze of desire and disillusionment, drawing us inexorably deeper into a world of
bright shadows and dark truths ... [this performance] illuminates Strindberg's
seminal work of modernist drama.
That's why I wanted to go see it: modernist, drama, Strindberg. The translation
by Danielle Blackbird rarely disappoints. There are some conversational nuances
that don't translate well, but the actors are superb and masterful in their
delivery including Bergman-like silences and dramatic pauses.
Read more: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/2014/11/10/theater-review-ghost-sonata-nimbus-theatre
Tiden på SvD gjorde Lagerkvist ödmjuk
Krönika Lars Ring
SvD 10 november 2014
”Något av det tommaste och fnoskigaste man kan tänka sig” – med dessa raka ord
debuterar Pär Lagerkvist som reguljär teaterkritiker i Svenska Dagbladet den 4
januari 1919. Det var en norsk, i dag helt glömd komedi han skrev om. Under ett
halvt år recenserar Lagerkvist dåtida scenkonst som just står inför det moderna
genombrottet. Efter 41 artiklar avslutar han sin kritikerbana.
[...]
Våren 1919 lägger Lagerkvist ner kritikerpennan för gott efter att under våren
har skrivit understreckare där han hyllat Strindberg och den mogne Ibsen. Samma
höst publicerar han pjäsen ”Himlens hemlighet” och lägger därmed ännu en
grundsten i det bygge som ska bli Nobelpristagaren Pär Lagerkvist.
Läs resten: http://www.svd.se/kultur/tiden-pa-svd-gjorde-lagerkvist-odmjuk_4086057.svd
OBS, även:
Strindberg och Intima teatern
av Pär Lagerkvist
[Ursprungligen publicerad Under strecket i Svenska Dagbladet den 27 januari
1919]
Länk: http://www.svd.se/kultur/understrecket/strindberg-och-intima-teatern_2692383.svd
Italia
Ronconi, Danza macabra in chiaroscuro
Il testo di August Strindberg ha aperta la stagione del Metastasio. Buona
l’accoglienza del pubblico, per un allestimento in cui Luca Ronconi appare meno
incisivo del solito.
Di Niccolò Lucarelli
Nove da Firenze, 09
novembre 2014
La meschina e qualunquista quotidianità di due coniugi, che non si nascondono
una reciproca mancanza di stima dopo venticinque anni di noioso matrimonio, è
scelta da August Strindberg per analizzare - con un tocco di paradosso e nella
delicata forma del racconto teatrale -, la crisi di valori della borghesia a
cavallo fra Ottocento e Novecento, quando si scoprì che il Positivismo non
portava con sé tutte le soluzioni, e si profilava all’orizzonte la “scoperta”
della “morte di Dio”.
Legete il sotto: http://www.nove.firenze.it/ronconi-danza-macabra-in-chiaroscuro.htm
USA, Minneapolis (MN)
Our five faves this week: 'Laggies,' 'Ghost Sonata,' 'Fast Money,'
more
Star Tribune, November 8, 2014
[...]
2 In the 1908 drama “Ghost Sonata,” August Strindberg wrestles with
disillusionment over the prevalence of human cruelty. Nimbus Theatre in
northeast Minneapolis is premiering a captivating original translation of the
play by Danielle Blackbird. Those accustomed to the image of the Swedish
playwright as a misogynist will be struck by this play’s blistering attack on
male hypocrisy and how women, a girl and a young man are its victims. Right from
the start, director Zach Morgan’s staging creates a dreamlike atmosphere.
nimbustheatre.com.
Read more: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/281847991.html
Italia
"Danza macabra", il noir dei sentimenti familiari
Lo spettacolo tratto da August Strindberg e diretto da Luca Ronconi è in scena
al Metastasio con Adriana Asti, Giorgio Ferrara e Giovanni Crippa
Di Sara Bessi
La Nazione 8 novembre 2014
Prato, 8 novembre 2014 - Il verde petrolio limaccioso e il nero segnano la cifra
cromatica della scena cristallizzata in cui si muovono i personaggi rinchiusi,
anche essi, nel fondersi dei due plumbei colori. Pare di venire risucchiati
nelle sabbie mobili dell'animo umano corroso dalle insoddisfazioni e dalla
recriminazioni delle esistenze. E il senso claustrofobico accresce al pensiero
che Edgar, Alice e Kurt si muovono, come in scatole cinesi, dentro al faro
funereo, isolati dalla famiglia umana per scelta su un lembo di terra circondato
dal mare.
Non una luce calda del sole, non il pulsare rassicurante del faro, ma il vento
minaccioso (non solo fisico con i carrelli che spostano i mobili della
scenografia di Marco Rossi, ma anche interiore) una luce gelida da anatomia
scientifica dei vizi e poche virtù di una coppia di coniugi insieme da 25 anni
malgrado l'astio reciproco e di un cugino- bamboccione che da quasi maggiordomo
si trasforma a contatto coi parenti persi di vista da almeno tre lustri in un
demonio, clone di vita malata in cui ci si nutre del sangue dell'altro inteso
come aspirazioni e volontà represse.
Legete il sotto: http://www.lanazione.it/prato/teatro-metastasio-ronconi-1.382017
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Alice in Blunderland: "The Dance of Death" and war between the
sexes
By Ed Rampell
People's World, November 7 2014
This production of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg's 1900 The Dance of
Death, now playing at A Noise Within (ANW) in Pasadena, is expertly acted and
directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott. The latter also co-stars
as the former artillery captain Edgar, who is enmeshed in the most miserable
marriage this side of Edward Albee's George and Martha in Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?, not to mention those suffering Scandinavian spouses in
countless downbeat Ingmar Bergman movies often starring the Swede's stock
players, such as Liv Ullmann in the bleak Scenes From a Marriage.
In Dance, ANW resident artist Susan Angelo masterfully depicts has-been actress
Alice, the other half of this unhappy marriage -- or perhaps I should say the
other "third" of what becomes a triangle, once the couple's old "friend" and
Alice's cousin, Kurt (Eric Curtis Johnson), enters the fray.
Read more: http://peoplesworld.org/alice-in-blunderland-the-dance-of-death-and-war-between-the-sexes/
USA ,
Minneapolis (MN)
9 questions with Charlie McCarron, Stillwater native and composer
By Chris Hewitt
TwinCities 11/06/2014
August Strindberg's 100-year-old play, "Ghost Sonata," has been performed
thousands of times -- but it's never been done quite the way Nimbus Theatre is
doing it: with a live musical score by Stillwater native Charlie McCarron.
It's the first theater music for McCarron, 28, who has a degree in music
composition from St. John's/St. Ben's. Having done a fair amount of composing
for film and video projects, he got the "Ghost Sonata" gig when another
composer, who couldn't do it, suggested him.
Read more: http://www.twincities.com/music/ci_26882097/nine-questions-composer-charlie-mccarron
USA
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble to Bring CREDITORS to The Wild Project, 12/3-7
Broadway World, Off-Off Broadway, November 4
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble (PTE) announces that it will be presenting August
Strindberg's searing domestic drama Creditors in the celebrated translation by
Scottish playwright David Grieg (Donmar Warehouse 2008; BAM 2010) for 6
performances only on Wednesday Dec 3 @ 8:00 pm; Thursday Dec 4 @ 8:00; Friday,
Dec 5 @ 8:00 pm; Saturday Dec 6 @ 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm and Sunday Dec 7 @ 3:00 pm
at the Wild Project at 195 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B).
Read more: http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Phoenix-Theatre-Ensemble-to-Bring-CREDITORS-to-The-Wild-Project-123-7-20141104
USA, Weston (MA)
Weston resident in August Strindberg play
WickedLocal, Weston Nov. 5, 2014
Elizabeth M. Buchanan of Weston, a senior at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y.,
is a cast member in the college’s fall theater production, "A Dream Play" by
August Strindberg, in a new version by Caryl Churchill.
Performances will run Thursday to Saturday, Nov. 6 to 8, at 7:30 p.m., and
Wednesday to Saturday, Nov. 12 to 15, at 7:30 p.m. There is one additional
performance on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m.
All performances will take place in the new state-of-the-art Romano Theatre
within the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts on the Hamilton
College Campus.
Buchanan is the daughter of Robert and Chantal Buchanan Jr. A mathematics and
theater major at Hamilton, she is a graduate of Newton Country Day School.
Link: http://weston.wickedlocal.com/article/20141105/NEWS/141107839
UK
After Miss Julie
Sophie Birkin finds this intimate production to be an acting and directorial
triumph
4 1/2 Star
By Sophie Birkin
Varsity, Wednesday 5th November 2014
Before attending last night’s production of After Miss Julie at the Corpus
Playroom I was concerned. As a big fan of Marber’s play and an even bigger fan
of the 2012 production at The Young Vic, I felt that an unusually high benchmark
had been set. It was both a relief and pleasure to find myself once again
transported into the convoluted realm of sexual, gender and class politics;
weighty themes which were all skilfully handled.
Read more: http://www.varsity.co.uk/theatre/7764
USA, Minneapolis (MN)
Strindberg's 'The Ghost Sonata' exposes class conflict
Review: Zach Morgan directs a captivating new translation of the August
Strindberg play by Danielle Blackbird.
By: John Townsend
Star Tribune, November 3, 2014
Playwright August Strindberg looms as a theatrical innovator of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. As a young man he passionately embraced atheism and
the ideas of Darwin and Nietzsche.
In time he became fascinated with the supernatural and the subconscious. As his
style shifted from naturalistic to expressionistic, his capacity for empathy was
profoundly enlarged.
In the 1908 drama “The Ghost Sonata,” completed four years before his death,
Strindberg wrestles with disillusionment over the prevalence of human cruelty.
Read more: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/281332831.html
Halmstads Teater - Sveriges största landsortsteater fyller 60 år
MyNewsDesk, Pressmeddelande • 2014-11-03
Den 13 november firar Halmstads Teater 60 år med öppet hus, Kalasföreställning,
bokrelease, fotoutställning och August Strindbergs pjäs Dödsdansen. Välkommen på
presskonferens den 7 november i foajén på Halmstads teater.
Läs mer: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/halmstad/pressreleases/halmstads-teater-sveriges-stoersta-landsortsteater-fyller-60-aar-1077908
& Läs
mer:,www.halmstadsteater.se
Italia
Adriana Asti apre la stagione del Metastasio
Con la "Danza macabra" dello svedese Strindberg
Di Federico Berti
QN 2 novembre 2014
Prato, 2 novembre 2014 - Sarà la grande attrice Adriana Asti ad inaugurare il
cartellone di prosa della nuova stagione del Teatro Metastasio. Un lungo e
prestigioso carnet di appuntamenti che coincide con i cinquanta anni dalla
riapertura del teatro pratese dopo un lungo restauro. L’attrice milanese è
dunque la prima “regina” del palcoscenico che debutterà mercoledì 5 novembre con
un testo classico del teatro contemporaneo; “Danza macabra”, scritto nel 1900 in
una sola settimana dal grande drammaturgo svedese August Strindberg. Adriana
Asti nel ruolo di Alice, ex attrice e moglie di Edgar capitano di artiglieria.
Alle soglie delle nozze d’argento i due coniugi saranno protagonisti di feroce
confronto/scontro all’interno di un“inferno” domestico. Sul palcoscenico anche
Giorgio Ferrara e Giovanni Crippa. Regia del maestro Luca Ronconi.
Legete il sotto: http://www.quotidiano.net/adriana-asti-apre-la-stagione-del-metastasio-1.363372
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Scandinavia at the Chicago International Film Festival
By Bill Meyer
People's World October 31 2014
Scandinavia showed up in full glory at the 50th Chicago International Film
Festival. A Swedish film even won the coveted Best Foreign Film Audience Award.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, directed by
Felix Herngren, is an entertaining, hilarious Forest Gump-type send-up of the
history film genre.
[...]
There were several other great films from Scandinavia at the festival. The
famous Swedish director, Ingmar Bergman, was represented by a revival of his
epic autobiographical classic, Fanny and Alexander, considered by many to be one
of the greatest films of all time. Bergman's famous leading lady, Liv Ullmann,
now turned director, appeared in person to present the opening film of the
festival, Miss Julie, her filmic take on August Strindberg's classic play of
class and power.
Read more: http://peoplesworld.org/scandinavia-at-the-chicago-international-film-festival/
Italia
"Danza macabra" inaugura la stagione del Teatro Metastasio di Prato
Fino a domenica 9 novembre va in scena il testo di Strindberg messo in scena dal
regista Luca Ronconi. Tra gli interpreti Adriana Asti, Giorgio Ferrara e
Giovanni Crippa
Il Tirreno 31
ottobre 2014
PRATO. L’inaugurazione della stagione 2014/2015 al Teatro Metastasio di Prato,
da mercoledì 5 a domenica 9 novembre, è affidata a Luca Ronconi e al suo ultimo
spettacolo, Danza macabra di August Strindberg, una coproduzione del Teatro
Metastasio Stabile della Toscana e di Spoleto57 Festival dei 2Mondi, in
collaborazione con Mittelfest 2014.
Legete il sotto: http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/prato/tempo-libero/2014/10/31/news/danza-macabra-inaugura-la-stagione-del-teatro-metastasio-di-prato-1.10219829
USA, Minneapolis (MN)
Stage spotlights: Hong Kong Ballet,
Ragamala, Casting Spells, Nimbus
Star Tribune, October 30, 2014
[...]
The Ghost Sonata
Opening: Nimbus has bitten off the challenge
of staging this expressionistic play by
August Strindberg. A young man meets an old
man and they enter a dinner party. It’s not
about plot. It’s about the hell that
Strindberg considered life to be and the
horrible things people do to each other.
Zach Morgan is directing the piece with a
big cast. The play was last reviewed in the
Twin Cities in 1991 at Park Square. For it
to be done right, it needs to be bizarre and
unsettling. Sounds like a good time. (8 p.m.
Sat., 3 p.m. Sun, 7:30 p.m. Thu. Ends Nov.
23, Nimbus, 1517 Central Av. NE., Mpls.,
$10-$18, 612-548-1380 or www.nimbustheatre.com.)
G.R.
Link: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/280961512.html
USA, Greenwood (SC)
Lander Theatre to Present
Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'
GWD Today, 10/29/2014
Lander University’s Department of Mass
Communication and Theatre will present
August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” Nov. 5-7 at
8 p.m., and Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. All
performances, which are free, will be in the
university’s Josephine B. Abney Cultural
Center. The production is for mature
audiences.
Directed by Monique Sacay-Bagwell, professor
of theatre at Lander, “Miss Julie” revolves
around a night-long flirtation and seduction
in the late 1880s between a Count’s daughter
with a self-destructive streak and her
father’s personal valet.
“What fascinates me about this story is that
it presents the struggle most people
experience by wanting something they do not
have because they think it will bring them
happiness,” said Sacay-Bagwell. “Julie, the
daughter of a Count, wants to be accepted
more as an independent thinker than as a
woman born into nobility, while Jean, the
Count’s valet, desires a more privileged
status.”
After their relationship escalates
romantically and they realize they cannot
fulfill each other’s desires, Julie is
convinced by Jean that the only way she can
spare her family from the shame of their
affair is to commit suicide.
For more information about the production of
“Miss Julie” at Lander, visit www.lander.edu.
Link: http://gwdtoday.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=131&ArticleID=31899
Portugal
Setúbal: TAS apresenta “O
Sonho” de August Strindberg
Obocagiano, 24/10/2014
O Teatro de Animação de Setúbal (TAS)
estreia esta sexta-feira, no Fórum Municipal
Luísa Todi, a peça "O Sonho", de Ausgust
Strindberg. O espectáculo estará em cena até
ao dia 26 de Outubro.
A peça conta com encenação de Carlos Curto e
produção de Célia David. O elenco é composto
pelos actores residentes Célia David, Duarte
Victor, José Nobre, Miguel Assis, Sónia
Martins, Susana Brito, e pelos actores
convidados André Moniz, Catarina Pacheco,
Joana Costa, João Condeça, Kimberlly
Ostrowskij, Mariana Silva, Miguel Viegas e
Patrícia Borba.
Para a presidente da direcção do TAS, Célia
David, a ideia de fazer esta peça teve que
ver com o facto de ser um clássico e
pertencer a um autor dos mais importantes da
dramaturgia universal de todos os tempos,
"as pessoas, no geral, não têm muito
conhecimento sobre este tipo de obras, daí
sentirmo-nos na obrigação de divulgar
autores, quer sejam contemporâneos ou
clássicos".
Segundo a mesma, "'O Sonho' continua a ser
uma peça interessante, nos dias de hoje,
porque, apesar de falar numa forma de
viagem, através de um sonho, uma coisa
onírica, continua a ser, de uma forma
simbólica, um pretexto para falar sobre a
alma humana, dos defeitos dos seres humanos
e de todas as vicissitudes da sociedade".
Nesta produção o espectador é convidado a
assistir ao desenrolar de um sonho, a fazer
uma viagem profunda através de ambientes
simbólicos, com momentos de drama, poesia e
comédia.
Link: http://www.obocagiano.pt/noticia/detalhe?a=64908&s=true
USA, Los Angeles (CA)
Dance' of Divorce
A Noise Within gives August Strindberg’s
tale of a toxic marriage new meaning with
Conor McPherson’s adaptation of ‘The Dance
of Death’
By Carl Kozlowski
Pasaden Weekley, 10/23/2014
Divorce is a sad fact of modern life, with
an estimated half of American marriages
falling apart. But the latest play at
Pasadena’s A Noise Within theater, “The
Dance of Death,” still manages to find
plenty of wicked laughs in the story of a
seemingly perfect couple secretly tearing
each other apart.
Long known for their innovative twists on
classic works, A Noise Within is
particularly striking with this latest
production as it marks the West Coast
premiere of Irish playwright Conor
McPherson’s 2007 reboot of August
Strindberg’s play from 1900. Following in
the footsteps of a highly successful US
premiere in Chicago earlier this year,
Noise’s “Dance” offers a biting satirical
take on modern pairings while reminding
patrons that there have always been toxic
relationships.
“Dance” depicts the dissolution of a
marriage between Edgar, an artillery
captain, and Alice, a former actress. This
couple, married for a quarter century, lives
on a remote Nordic island — an ideal setting
for feelings of claustrophobia and
dysfunction. Strindberg’s portrayal of
spouses revolting against each other was
revolutionary in its brutally honest
depiction of marital discord and
psychological warfare, and influenced an
array of 20th century playwrights, including
Edward Albee and John Guare.
Read more: http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/dance_of_divorce/13725/
USA, Los Angeles (CA)
Review
A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A
Noise Within
By Charles McNulty
Los Angeles Times, October
21, 2014
"No one has the opportunity of tormenting
one another as thoroughly as a man and woman
who love one another (= hate one another),"
Swedish playwright August Strindberg
observed with his usual acrimonious relish.
His play "The Dance of Death" is a
demonstration of this ruthlessly unromantic
view. The current revival at A Noise Within,
using a smooth and relatively new
translation by Irish playwright Conor
McPherson that's tinged with Beckett,
softens some of the savagery. But even
watered down, Strindberg's balefulness has a
tonic quality.
The author of "Miss Julie," "The Father" and
"The Ghost Sonata," Strindberg has been
pilloried as a misogynist, though
misanthrope might be the more appropriate
charge. An equal opportunity cynic, he would
be dismissed as a nut job were he not such
an astute observer of human behavior at its
quotidian worst and a dramatic poet of
groundbreaking innovation and lasting
influence.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-dance-of-death-review-noise-within-20141022-column.html
USA, Pasadena (CA)
Review: A Noise Within’s ‘The Dance of
Death’ is a meaty character study
By Frances Baum Nicholson
The Sun 10/21/14
Long before Edward Albee’s portrait of a
manipulative, wretched, psychologically
sadistic marriage in “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?” there was August
Strindberg. A man whose view of matrimony
can be gleaned from his four unsuccessful
marriages, the 19th century Swedish
playwright examined the twists and turns of
relationships in several works, but never
created a more mutually vicious version than
that in “The Dance of Death.”
Now open as the third show of a three-play
fall repertory, the production at A Noise
Within in Pasadena creates an equally
stunning portrait of deeply psychological
marital dysfunction, laid out in front of a
guest who finds himself gradually swept up
in the grimly manipulative human
interactions.
Read more: http://www.sbsun.com/arts-and-entertainment/20141021/review-a-noise-withins-the-dance-of-death-is-a-meaty-character-study/1
Trinidad and Tobago
Actors needed for Miss Julie
The Guardian Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Fab Productions CEO and founder Farrukh
Altaf Barlas, has teamed up with local
veteran Errol Sitahal and UTT’s BFA
graduates Aryana Mohammed and Vedesh Nath to
bring to you August Strindberg’s classical
work Miss Julie.
The play will mark the local launch of the
international theatre company Fab
Productions and begin a new era of serious
theatre for local audiences.
A release from Fab Productions said the
company’s main objective is to set a
platform for amateur and professional
artists, directors and producers to show
their talent to the world and to stimulate
creation and increase cooperation among
theatre people.
Fabulous Productions also hopes to increase
public awareness of the need to take
artistic creation into consideration in
matters concerning development, love and
peace through performing arts. They intend
through their productions to deepen mutual
understanding and contribute to the
consolidation of peace and friendship.
Miss Julie will premiere in December and
open auditions are being held to give local
actors and theatre practitioners an
opportunity as Fab Productions forms their
company of players. The final open Auditions
are being held on October 25, from 12 pm - 6
pm at the UWI, St Augustine.
MORE INFO
For information please contact 719-9102,
325-8035 or email.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.tt/entertainment/2014-10-20/actors-needed-miss-julie
USA, Maryland
Theater Project Beltsville presents
Cold Shoulders, Oct 24-Nov 8
pgtheater (A guide to amateur theater in
Prince George's County, Maryland), October
20, 2014
Theater Project Beltsville presents Cold
Shoulders
Three one-act plays by Strindberg,
Gerstenberg and Burton
produced and directed by Franklin Akers
Friday, Saturday October 24, 25 at 8pm;
Sunday October 26 at 3pm; Saturday November
1 at 8pm, Sunday November 2 at 3pm; Friday,
Saturday November 7 and 8 at 8pm
Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, 10774
Rhode Island Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland
20705
Any citizens of Beltsville and neighboring
communities are welcome and encouraged to
participate. If you are interested, email
director Franklin Akers at frank.akers@comcast.net -or-
leave voice mail at 240-391-6416.
Link: http://pgtheater.com/tag/august-strindberg/
España
Cine
Liv Ullmann vuelve a Strindberg con
una delicada, profunda y rabiosa adaptación
de "La señorita Julia"
El Día de Valladolid, Ical - lunes, 20 de
octubre de 2014
Eterno. Así es el texto que el dramaturgo
sueco August Strindberg escribió en 1888,
para poner sobre las tablas un triángulo
amoroso diseñado para sacar a relucir la
miseria humana, centrándose en la lucha de
clases, la perversión de los sentimientos,
el amor, el dolor, el odio y la rabia,
analizando a modo de un sabio entomólogo las
relaciones humanas y la inevitable guerra de
sexos. Con ese punto de partida Liv Ullmann,
quien fuera musa de Bergman, ha dado forma a
su última película, que hoy se sumó a la
programación de la Sección Oficial del
certamen cosechando sonoros aplausos.
Leer más: http://www.eldiadevalladolid.com/noticia/ZCE811F89-DFEC-67E6-6B7E9B5594F3734D/20141020/liv/ullmann/vuelve/strindberg/delicada/profunda/rabiosa/adaptacion/se%C3%B1orita/julia
España
Una 'Miss Julia' colombiana abre la
programación de la Central Lechera
La compañía Vueltas Bravas pone en escena la
obra que se volverá a ver mañana en la misma
sala
Diario de Cádiz, 20.10.2014
La Fröken Julie de August Strindberg se
vuelve colombiana con la adaptación del
dramaturgo y actor de la SITI Company J. Ed
Araiza que se encarga de adaptar esta obra
de 1888 que llega a Cádiz interpretada por
la compañía Vueltas Bravas en su propuesta
Miss Julia, que se pone en escena esta
tarde, a partir de las siete, en la Central
Lechera, convirtiéndose en la primera obra
del XXIX Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro
(FIT) que llega a esta sala.
Esta adaptación ubica la historia también en
la noche de San Juan pero de una Colombia
rural, una noche en la que Miss Julia y el
sirviente Juan tienen un encuentro que camb
iará sus vidas para siempre. Un encuentro
donde el amor, la lujuria y la luche de
clases se convierten en protagonistas hasta
el punto de arrebatar el control de su
historia a los propios personajes.
Además de la representación de este
espectáculo y del montaje de B. Flowers de
Marta Carrasco en el Gran Teatro Falla, la
oferta del FIT para la jornada de hoy acoge
la representación de la obra Nidos, a cargo
de Teloncillo Teatro, a las doce del
mediodía en el Espacio de Creación
Contemporánea (ECCO) y la obra Cuarteto del
alba, de los vascos Laurentzi Producciones,
a las ocho y media de la tarde en el Teatro
del Títere La Tía Norica.
Miss Julia, además de esta tarde, también se
podrá ver mañana a la misma hora en la Sala
Central Lechera.
Link:http://www.diariodecadiz.es/article/ocio/1881678/una/miss/julia/colombiana/abre/la/programacion/la/central/lechera.html
USA, Los Angeles (CA)
Photo Flash: First Look at Conor
McPherson's THE DANCE OF DEATH at A Noise
Within
BroadwayWorld.Com, Los Angeles, October 15,
2014
A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed
classical repertory theatre company,
continues its 2014-2015 REVOLUTIONary season
with The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
in a new adaptation by Irish playwright
Conor McPherson, which opens this Saturday,
October 18, and runs through Sunday,
November 23, 2014. BroadwayWorld has a first
look at the cast in action below!
Directed by Geoff Elliott and Julia
Rodriguez-Elliott, this is the West Coast
premiere of the new McPherson adaptation,
which had its U.S. premiere earlier this
year in Chicago. The cast features Geoff
Elliott* as Edgar, Susan Angelo* as Alice,
and Eric Curtis Johnson* as Kurt. (*denotes
member of Actors' Equity)
Link: http://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-Conor-McPhersons-THE-DANCE-OF-DEATH-at-A-Noise-Within-20141015
Argentina
TEATRO › OJO POR OJO, DE AUGUSTO FERNANDES,
EN EL TEATRO MARGARITA XIRGU
Amor y venganza, una fórmula
clásica
Por Paula Sabatés
Página 12, Miércoles, 15 de octubre de 2014
Las impecables actuaciones de Federico
Luppi, Erica Rivas y Darío Dukah, junto a la
dirección de actores a cargo de Fernandes,
resultan lo más destacado de esta puesta,
una versión no tan libre de Acreedores, de
August Strindberg.
Un tipo misterioso se aparece en el lugar de
descanso en el que Adolfo espera impaciente
el regreso de su esposa Tecla. Esta se fue
de viaje por unos días y en la despedida
discutió con su marido quien, más joven que
ella, le dijo que era “demasiado vieja para
conquistar”. Frágil e inseguro, el hombre
teme que ella se cobre venganza con una
infidelidad. Y en medio de su desolación –y
como un niño que busca al padre– encuentra
en aquel hombre mayor un supuesto aliado. Lo
que no sabe es que el señor es en verdad
Gustavo, el esposo anterior de Tecla, y que
hará todo lo posible para quebrar la pareja
y vengarse de su ex. Así es el argumento de
Ojo por ojo, versión (no tan) libre de
Augusto Fernandes sobre Acreedores, de
August Strindberg. A simple vista, la
historia de un triángulo amoroso; más en
profundidad, un tratado en el que se
despliegan todas las ideas (bastante
misóginas) que el autor nacido en Estocolmo
tuvo sobre las mujeres. Una auténtica guerra
de los sexos.
Leer más: http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/10-33700-2014-10-15.html
UK
The green-eyed monster: Why do
we get jealous?
By Peter Toohey
The Independent, Tuesday 14 October 2014
What is jealousy? A painting by the Swedish
playwright August Strindberg, Night of
Jealousy, (1893) offers one kind of answer.
On first glance it is an impenetrable blur
of darks, greys and whites. It’s all raging
seas, slashing rain and thunder clouds – an
analogy, you could say, for someone in the
midst of a jealous rage.
Many who have been badly jealous might
instantly believe that, yes, that’s how it
really feels. Strindberg has the turbulence,
anxiety and pain down cold. But couldn’t
this abstract evocation of jealousy do duty
for just about any strong feeling?
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/jealousy-from-the-trojan-war-to-towie-9794741.html
USA, Chicago (ILL)
The 2014 Equity Jeff Award
winners are...
By Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune, Oct 13, 2014
On Monday night in Oakbrook Terrace, the
Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee displayed
a deep love for the intimate. Writers
Theatre's production of August Strindberg's
"The Dance of Death," a rarely produced and
difficult play about the lust for power on
the battlefield of marriage, emerged as a
surprising big winner at the 46th annual
Equity Jeff Awards in a ceremony at the
Drury Lane Theatre. Director Henry
Wishcamper's production won for best "large"
production (despite being staged in a
Glencoe theater with less than 60 seats) and
its stars, Larry Yando and Shannon Cochran,
walked away together with the night's two
major non-musical acting awards.
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chi-2014-equity-jeff-award-winners-column.html#page=1
Deutschland
WÜRZBURG
Theaterwerkstatt: „Fräulein
Julie“
Main Post 13.10.2014
In einer Wiederaufnahme zeigt die
Theaterwerkstatt in Würzburg ab Freitag, 24.
Oktober, die Tragödie „Fräulein Julie“ von
August Strindberg. Julie, Tochter aus
reichem Haus, sucht Aufmerksamkeit und
findet sie bei Diener Jean. Jean wiederum
fühlt sich durch die Avancen der für ihn
unerreichbaren Julie (Ronja Herberich, Bild)
geschmeichelt und lässt sich auf sie ein:
Ein Gartenfest, ein lauer Sommerabend, die
Nacht zu zweit . . . Doch was als flüchtige
Affäre beginnt, entwickelt sich schnell zu
einem bösen Spiel um Macht und Abhängigkeit.
Auf dem Spielplan bis Mitte November.
Vorstellungen jeweils um 20 Uhr. Karten
unter (09 31) 5 94 00, online unter www.theater-werkstatt.com.
Die Mediengruppe Main-Post verlost Karten
für die Vorstellung am Samstag, 25. Oktober.
Wer gewinnen möchte, ruft an unter (0 13 78)
00 89 00, Stichwort „Julie“ (Anruf
50ct/Festnetz). Oder: E-Mail, Betreff
„Julie“ an red.kulturkalender@mainpost.de,
Postkarte an Mediengruppe Main-Post,
Redaktion Kulturkalender, Berner Straße 2,
97084 Würzburg. Online-Teilnahme unter www.mainpost.de/kartenverlosung.
Einsendeschluss/Anruf-Ende ist am
Donnerstag, 16. Oktober. Gewinner werden
benachrichtigt.
Link: http://www.mainpost.de/mpnlneu/sw/o3/art461636,8375948
150 kulturhändelser som skapade Sverige
DN Kultur, 12 oktober 2014
Under hösten väljer DN:s Kulturredaktion de
150 största kulturhändelserna sedan
tidningen grundades för lika många år sedan,
1864. Varje dag presenteras minst en ny, här
på bloggen och i papperstidningen.
Söndagen den 7 december öppnar vi en
omröstning om de tio allra största. Mejla
gärna egna förslag till 150listan@dn.se.
71. Falk såg huvudstaden ur
fågelperspektiv
Bok • August Strindberg: ”Röda -rummet” • År
1879
Med ”Röda rummet” fick den unge August
Strindberg sitt stora genombrott och Sverige
sin första moderna roman. Berättelsen om hur
Strindbergs alter ego, idealisten Arvid
Falk, försöker ta sig fram i huvudstaden som
skribent och blir alltmer desillusionerad,
är en dräpande, rolig och delvis sorglig
skildring befolkad av ett fascinerande
persongalleri. Romanens inledningskapitel –
”Stockholm i fågelperspektiv” – av hur den
stridslystne Falk står uppe på Mosebacke och
trotsigt knyter näven mot staden nedanför är
utan tvekan en av den svenska litteraturens
mest kända och oftast citerade.
Till och med den 6 december nominerar DN
Kultur 150 kulturhändelser sedan tidningen
grundades. Sedan startar omröstningen om de
10 viktigaste. Var med!
Länk: http://blogg.dn.se/150-listan/2014/10/12/71-falk-sag-huvudstaden-ur-fagelperspektiv/
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Chicago International Film Festival: An
Opening Week Sampler
Chicagoist, 08.10 2014
It's appropriate that the landmark 50th
anniversary edition of the Chicago
International Film Festival opens with Miss
Julie, an adaptation of an August Strindberg
play directed by an Ingmar Bergman disciple
(Liv Ullmann). The hint of Bergman harkens
back to the mid-60s—the time when the
festival was born and when foreign films and
art films really made some inroads on
American culture. And, let's be frank, it's
also fitting for a festival that has always
been a little heavy on the heavy. There are
always comedies and genre films in CIFF's
generous schedule, but they do often seem
dwarfed by tragedies, grim realism, or
movies where sex is abundant but rarely fun.
Of course we're simplifying, and Lord knows
most American viewers could use a healthy
dose of some anti-escapism in their movie
diets. Plus, the films we were able to catch
in advance of the festival's opening
Thursday night are a small and somewhat
random sampling of those showing. Still,
these six films playing during the
festival's first seven days (Oct. 9 - 15),
suggest CIFF programmers still have a
healthy appetite for the downbeat. More
sampling will appear here next week in
advance of CIFF's final stretch. But if
you're plotting a visit this week, here are
some to see, one to skip, and a couple to
flip a coin over. All films are playing at
AMC's River East 21 Theatres.
Force Majeure: One of the films in the
festival's Main Competition, this Swedish
feature won the Jury Prize (basically the
runner-up) in the prestigious Un Certain
Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Writer-director Ruben Östland's account of a
marriage on the rocks in the wake of a minor
avalanche at a French Alps ski resort has
been described as a satire, but it plays
more as discomforting drama with a few
sprinkles of dark comedy.
Read more: http://chicagoist.com/2014/10/08/chicago_international_film_festival_4.php
Italia
“Il Padre” di August Strindberg
PadovaOggi 7 ottobre 2014
Presso Teatro Sanclemente Dal 11/10/2014 Al
11/10/2014
Prende il via sabato 11 ottobre la prima
stagione teatrale organizzata dalla società
cooperativa di impresa sociale Top – Teatri
Off Padova: quaranta spettacoli, tra prosa,
musica e danza che avranno luogo, da ottobre
2014 ad aprile 2015 nei tre principali
Teatri Off del circuito padovano: il Teatro
de LiNUTILE, il Teatro dei Carichi Sospesi e
il Teatro Sanclemente.
Molteplici sono sia i temi sia i generi che
vengono affrontati nel corso della Stagione
che, forte della assoluta libertà lasciata
alle decisioni artistiche delle direzioni
dei teatri, spazia dalla prosa alla musica,
alla danza e agli spettacoli per bambini.
Alternando tradizione e contemporaneità in
un percorso di ricerca e conoscenza con
interpreti cultori e rinnovatori della
tradizione.
Il potere e il lavoro. Il potere, dato da
quella paternità che giustifica il secolare
dominio dell’uomo sulla donna, è al centro
de “Il Padre” di August Strindberg, diretto
da Stefano Eros Macchi. Lo spettacolo, che
inaugura la Stagione sabato 11 ottobre alle
21.00 al Teatro Sanclemente, testimonia il
lungo calvario mentale del protagonista, che
roso dal dubbio, instillatogli dalla moglie,
di non essere il genitore della propria
figlia, sprofonda in un’angoscia devastante.
Legete il sotto: http://www.padovaoggi.it/eventi/teatro/il-padre-teatro-sanclemente-padova-11-ottobre-2014.html
Toronto International Film Festival
2014—Part 5
99 Homes, Shelter and harsh American
realities: Filmmakers inch their way toward
important truths
Director Ramin Bahrani: “The villain is the
system”
By Joanne Laurier
World Socialist Web Site, 10 October 2014
The dominant view in contemporary cinema and
criticism, unstated or not, is that art and
social analysis are to all practical
purposes mutually exclusive, that the
dramatization of social problems, including
the conditions under which vast numbers of
people live, is not conducive to the
creation of “genuine art.”
Over the past two decades in particular, the
intellectual and political crimes of
Stalinism and the demise of the USSR have
dishonestly become part of the justification
in artistic circles for social indifference
and downright middle class selfishness.
So-called “artistic films,” for the most
part bereft of artistry or any outstanding
quality except a devotion to the concerns
and anxieties of the social layer that
produces them, are obliged by an internal
command to avoid the problems facing the
mass of the population, lest they be branded
didactic or propagandistic.
[...]
Miss Julie
In the introduction to his play, Miss Julie,
written in 1888, Swedish dramatist August
Strindberg (1849-1912) described its central
theme: “The problem of social rise or
downfall, of who is higher or lower, or who
is better or worse, whether man or woman,
is, has been and shall be of enduring
interest.”
Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/10/tff5-o10.html
USA
Chicago Film Fest: Liv Ullmann on an
Iconic Half-Century Career, Fest Opener
'Miss Julie'
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter, Oct 9 2014
On Thursday evening, the 50th annual Chicago
International Film Festival will kick off
with the U.S. premiere of Miss Julie, the
latest film from the legendary Liv Ullmann,
who made her name as an actress in the great
films of Ingmar Bergman and Jan Troell, and
who has since become a first-rate filmmaker
in her own right.
At the recent Toronto International Film
Festival, where Miss Julie — the latest
adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888
upstairs-downstairs dramatic play — had its
world premiere, I had the rare opportunity
to sit down with the 75-year-old for an
hour-long interview about her remarkable
life, career and latest project. It did not
disappoint.
Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/chicago-film-fest-liv-ullmann-739658
Ny Strindbergsmålning upptäckt
SvD, 9 oktober 2014, Stockholm TT
En ny målning av August Strindberg har dykt
upp. Målningen som inte tidigare skådats av
vare sig Strindbergexperter eller
allmänheten, kommer att gå under
auktionsklubban i december för ett
utropspris på fem miljoner kronor.
Konstverket målades av Strindberg 1894,
under hans mentalt oroliga tid i Paris - den
så kallade infernokrisen. Under den här
perioden så ansåg sig Strindberg förföljd
och skrev ytterst lite. Därför har
konstvärlden varit osäkra på vilka verk
Strindberg målade där.
Läs mer: http://www.svd.se/kultur/ny-strindbergsmalning-upptackt_3997105.svd
Äv: https://www.bukowskis.com/en/news/584
Ireland
‘Miss Julie’ secures U.S.
Distribution Deal
By Deirdre Molumby
IFTN, 06 Oct 2014
Wrekin Hill Entertainment has bought all
U.S. rights to ‘Miss Julie,’ starring
Jessica Chastain (‘Zero Dark Thirty’, ‘The
Help’), Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton
(‘In America’, ‘Minority Report’). The deal
comes three weeks after the film had its
world premiere at the Toronto International
Film Festival.
Based on the August Strindberg play, the
film was directed by Liv Ullmann and
produced by Synnøve Hørsdal, Oliver Dungey
and Teun Hilte. The film is being poised for
an awards season run as Wrekin Hill will
release the film in theatres in December.
Read more: http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4287594&tpl=archnews&force=1
Australia
UATG Theatre Guild Presents MISS
JULIE and AFTER MISS JULIE Double Bill,
Beginning Tonight
BroadwayWorld.com, Australia-Adelaide,
October 4, 2014
UATG Theatre Guild presents Miss Julie by
August Strindberg, translated by Michael
Meyer and After Miss Julie by Patrick
Marber, by arrangement with OriginTM
Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.
Directed by Geoff Brittain with Costume
Design by Ben Todd, the production will run
at the Little Theatre, The Cloisters,
University of Adelaide.
Performances: Sat 4, Sat 11 & Sat 18 October
2014, at 6pm, Miss Julie and After Miss
Julie (ends approx. 9.30pm) Tue 7-Fri 10
October 2014, Miss Julie at 7.30pm (ends
approx. 9pm) and Tue 14-Fri 17 October 2014,
After Miss Julie at 7.30pm (ends approx.
9pm).
Tickets: Double Bill Sats, Full $28 Conc.
$23, Tue-Fri 1 play Full $18, Conc. $13 www.trybooking.com/FKVL.
The Theatre Guild presents two versions of
the same story with the same cast!
Read more: http://www.broadwayworld.com/adelaide/article/UATG-Theatre-Guild-to-Present-MISS-JULIE-and-AFTER-MISS-JULIE-Double-Bill-Beg-Oct-4-20141003
Also: http://www.broadwayworld.com/adelaide/article/BWW-Reviews-MISS-JULIE-AND-AFTER-MISS-JULIE-Make-For-A-Fascinating-Double-Bill-20141008
UK
Thespians are hoping to tour
around county
Oxford Mail, 3
October 2014
A NEW professional theatre company hopes to
tour Oxfordshire after holding its first
production in Witney.
Witney Theatre Company performed August
Strindberg's Miss Julie in a barn at Cogges
Manor Farm Museum last Thursday and Friday.
About 100 people saw the play, about the
relationship between a young woman and a
servant, across the two nights.
Adrian Hewitt, who set up the group because
he felt the town did not have anything
similar, said: “The numbers were a bit
disappointing but I didn’t know what would
happen as it was our first one.
“I told the cast that when McDonald’s opened
it didn’t sell 20 million burgers on its
first day.
“But I’m encouraged because the people who
did go gave excellent feedback and said they
enjoyed it.
“It bodes well for the future because they
will tell their friends about it for the
next production.”
Dad-of-four Mr Hewitt, 51, a screenwriter
for children’s programmes including MI High
and The Mysti Show, plans to book venues
around the county to tour the play.
He will then begin work on a second
production, with the aim of performing early
next year.
Link: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11510727.Thespians_are_hoping_to_tour_around_county/
Italia
Al Soms di Castellucchio "La
Signorina Julie" di Strindberg
Teatro SOMS - Piazza Pasotti, 48 -
Castellucchio
Gazetta di Mantova 03.10.2014
Facci sapere se ci andrai
La Signorina Julie, atto unico di August
Strindberg, venerdì 3 ottobre, sarà
rappresentato al Teatro Soms di
Castellucchio. Posto unico 7 euro, ridotto
5. August Strindberg scrive la Signorina
Julie nel 1888. Ben presto questo piccolo
dramma in un atto diventa un manifesto del
teatro naturalistico. Oggi dopo più di cento
anni abbiamo deciso di riproporlo in veste
moderna, senza realmente preoccuparci delle
implicazioni e stratificazioni
storiografiche e di genere teatrale. Oggi
come allora Julie e Jean combattono la loro
schermaglia d’amore senza esclusione di
colpi, inesorabilmente attratti l’uno
dall’altra a dispetto di tutti gli ostacoli
che si trovano davanti. Ostacoli sociali, ma
anche psicologici, di opportunità, di
convenienza. Ostacoli che nel nostro
allestimento si materializzano come
impedimenti fisici che i personaggi dovranno
scavalcare e distruggere per inseguire la
propria felicità. Il desiderio però si
rivela illusione, la voluttà delusione, il
sogno nebbia fugace e alla fine la salvezza
si ritrova soltanto nella sicurezza linda e
metodica di una tavola ben apparecchiata..
Regia Raffaello Malesci. Interpreti: La
signorina Julie: Elisa Benedetti. Jean:
Danilo Furnari. Kristin: Isabella Fossati
Link: http://gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/tempo-libero/teatro/evento/al_soms_di_castellucchio_la_signorina_julie_di_strindberg-31073.html
USA, Minneapolis (MN)
Strindberg's 'Miss Julie' still
packs a punch
By Lisa Brock
The Star Tribune, October 2, 2014
Censored in Sweden and banned in Berlin,
August Strindberg’s controversial “Miss
Julie” wasn’t exactly your average night at
the theater in the late 19th century. While
its raw depiction of class and gender power
struggles may not hold quite the same shock
value for a present-day audience, Theatre
Coup d’Etat’s current production ably
demonstrates that “Miss Julie” still packs a
visceral punch.
The play takes place in the kitchen of a
Swedish count’s country estate. While the
rest of the household enjoys the revels of a
Midsummer celebration outside, the count’s
daughter Julie has descended to the kitchen
to engage in a complex game of seduction
with Jean, her father’s valet. She seems to
wield the upper hand at first, but their
roles reverse in the second half of the
play, with complex arguments about gender
and class expectations bubbling up in
physical and emotional violence.
Read more: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/277916681.html
USA, Farmville (VA)
Swept Away by Longwood’s Production of A
Dream Play
By Alex Fedorchak
The Rotunda (Longwood University),
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
A Dream Play is a complex and confusing
story that can entrap the audience with
twists, turns and unexpected changes in
events.
This play was written by August Strindberg
and focuses on the main character Agnes, who
is not human but a descendant of the gods
sent to Earth to understand human life.
The play was performed and produced by
Longwood Theatre majors with all levels of
experience. Those students who didn’t have a
role in the play had a huge part in
designing and creating the props, costumes
and set as they put in long hours every week
up until the opening night. Even though this
was not opening night, there was still a
decent turnout and many people appeared
excited about the play.
Read more: http://www.therotundaonline.com/features/article_ca4cc730-49b2-11e4-a447-001a4bcf6878.html
USA
Jessica Chastain & Liv Ullmann
Discuss MISS JULIE Stage-To-Screen
Adaptation
BoadwayWorld.com, October 1, 2014
Acclaimed actress and director Liv Ullmann's
upcoming stage-to-screen adaptation of
August Strindberg's MISS JULIE starring
Jessica Chastain is set to premiere later
this year and a new interview clip with the
actress and director is now available to
view.
Recent Oscar nominee and ZERO DARK THIRTY
Golden Globe winner Chastain and IN BRUGES
Golden Globe-winner Farrell make up the
characters comprising the central illicit
coupling of John and Miss Julie, with
Samantha Morton portraying misbegotten,
once-betrothed Kristin in the classic,
tragic romantic drama depicting a battle of
the sexes fit for the record books.
Read more: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jessica-Chastain-Liv-Ullmann-Discuss-MISS-JULIE-Stage-To-Screen-Adaptation-20141001
”Strindberg hade haft
PMS-hybris”
Liv Strömquist om behovet av att prata om
mens och kvinnors kön
Av Cecilia Gustavsson
Aftonbladet 2014-09-30
Mens, vulvagudinnor och lust – Liv
Strömquists nya seriebok liknar ingen
annan.
– Om Strindberg haft PMS skulle han
inkluderat det i sina verk, och haft
PMS-hybris.
Liv Strömquist har blivit en lysande stjärna
på serietecknarhimlen, med sin feministiska
och samhällskritiska stil. Hon har
tilldelats flera priser och hennes serier
har blivit pjäs, bland annat på Dramaten.
Efter hennes Sommarprogram – som fokuserade
på just mens –fick hon massor av reaktioner.
– Jag blev själv förvånad. Men mens är en
stor del av människors liv – för kvinnor och
alla män som är ihop med kvinnor. Det är ett
lågstatusämne som är kul att ta upp ur
historiskt och samhälleligt perspektiv:
Varför ses det som så skamligt och smutsigt?
Alla låtsas helst att de inte har det.
Läs mer: https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/ceciliasbocker/article19621118.ab
India
Things to do in Mumbai today
Mumbai Mirror, Sep 26, 2014
Catch a clandestine affair
Written by Swedish playwright August
Strindberg, Miss Julie revolves around the
eponymous character, who belongs to an
aristocratic family, and her secret
relationship with her manservant, Jean.
Starring Vidushi Mehra, Damandeep Sidhu and
Aarti Nayar.
Where: Experimental Theatre, NCPA, Nariman
Point When: 7 pm Entry: Rs 200 to Rs 300
Call: 22824567
Link: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Things-to-do-in-Mumbai-today/articleshow/43472525.cms
Argentina
Mucho más que una novia despechada
En cartelera con la exitosa “Relatos
Salvajes” y la flamante “El Cerrajero”, la
actriz también se luce en teatro con la obra
“Ojo x ojo”
El Día
La actriz Erica Rivas se destaca en “Ojo x
ojo”, que el director Augusto Fernandes
adaptó de la obra “Acreedores”, del sueco
August Strindberg, cuyo elenco completan
Federico Luppi y Darío Dukáh, en el porteño
teatro Margarita Xirgu.
Rivas es, en esa pieza escrita a fines del
siglo XIX, una mujer libre y encantadora
cuyos procederes torturan a su nuevo marido
(Dukáh), un pintor hipersensible despojado
de inspiración que, en un lugar de veraneo,
recibe la visita de un supuesto médico
(Luppi) que exacerba sus celos y su
desequilibrio.
Leer más: http://www.eldia.com.ar/edis/20140925/Mucho-mas-novia-despechada-espectaculos3.htm
USA, Pasadena (CA)
A Noise Within Continues its
2014-2015 Season with Dance of Death by
August Strindberg
Passaden Now, Wednesday,
September 24, 2014 - staff
A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed
classical repertory theatre company,
continues its 2014-2015 REVOLUTIONary season
with The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
in a new adaptation by Irish playwright
Conor McPherson, which opens on Saturday,
October 18 and runs through Sunday, November
23, 2014. Directed by Geoff Elliott and
Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, this is the West
Coast premiere of the new McPherson
adaptation, which had its U.S. premiere
earlier this year in Chicago. In 2007, Ben
Brantley of the New York Times called
McPherson “quite possibly the finest
playwright of his generation.” The cast
features Geoff Elliott* as Edgar, Susan
Angelo* as Alice, and Eric Curtis Johnson*
as Kurt.* Denotes member of Actors’ Equity
Read more: http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/a-noise-within-continues-its-2014-2015-season-with-dance-of-death-by-august-strindberg
Finland
Förbjudet begär nittio år senare - finländsk
urpremiär på Ödesmärkt
yle, 23.09.2014
När Radioteatern onsdag kväll sänder den
finländska urpremiären på Karin Smirnoffs
pjäs Ödesmärkt från 1923 – en av de första i
Norden som tog upp temat homosexualitet – är
det ett stycke teaterhistoria.
– Hur är det möjligt att Karin Smirnoff, som
var dotter till August Strindberg och Siri
von Essen, har varit en totalt bortglömd
författare ända fram till i dag? Ändå hade
hon, i likhet med sin far, ett stort socialt
patos och var inte rädd för att ta upp
tabubelagda ämnen. Hon skrev om kvinnans
ställning, socialismen, revolutionen,
homosexualitet, ensamstående mödrar, klass
och kön.
Det frågar sig Ylva Larsdotter, som suttit i
den redaktionsgrupp som gav ut Ödesmärkt i
bokform i fjol.
Läs mer: http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/09/23/forbjudet-begar-nittio-ar-senare-finlandsk-urpremiar-pa-odesmarkt
India
The class war
By Soma Das
Mid-Day, 23-Sep-2014
Miss Julie is an adaptation of a 19th
century play by Swedish playwright August
Strindberg. Produced by Delhi-based
Katyayani Production, the play highlights
the darker side of love and the tussle
between classes and sexes
After doing the rounds of theatre festivals
across India, including the Hindu Metroplus
Theatre Festival in Bangalore, Qadir Ali
Baig Theatre Festival in Hyderabad and
Bharat Rang Mahotsav (NSD Theatre Festival,
Delhi), Katyayani Productions’ play, Miss
Julie, is now being staged in the city.
Read more: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/the-class-war/15626153
India
Just Like a Dream
By Chencho Sherin Thomas
The New Indian Express, 22nd September 2014
KOCHI: Theatre underwent a sea change in the
19th century with the forceful entry of a
spate of writers brimming with refreshing
ideas. From Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian
playwright who rewrote the fate of theatre
across the globe, to George Bernard Shaw,
the paramount of English literature, 19th
century was blessed with its share of
creative brilliance. When Ibsen and Shaw
were household names in Kerala, the genius
of August Strindberg, a Swedish playwright
who had taken theatre by storm during the
same period was ebbed out into oblivion. It
was renowned Malayalam dramatist, N
Krishnapillai, who took the initiative of
introducing Strindberg to Kerala audience,
which was badly yearning for a break from
the drab of dramatic plays. Even though, he
had translated Strindberg’s ‘A Dream Play’
to ‘Oru Swapna Natakam’ eons ago, nobody had
yet attempted to bring it on stage. However,
as N Krishnapillai Foundation is celebrating
the thespian’s anniversary from September
20, Raja Varier, a known name in the theatre
circuit, is reprising ‘Oru Swapna Natakam’
with an enviable ensemble cast.
Read more: http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/Just-Like-a-Dream/2014/09/22/article2443842.ece
USA, New York (NY)
MISS JULIE to Run 10/21-11/8 at
August Strindberg Rep
BroadwayWorld.com September 22, 2014
From October 21 to November 8, August
Strindberg Repertory will transport
Strindberg's "Miss Julie" to an antebellum
Louisiana plantation in a new interpretation
conceived by Artistic Director Robert Greer
and adapted by Edgar Chisholm from a
translation by Greer. The production will
include a ballet sequence, which Strindberg
specified in the original manuscript and
which has never been performed before. The
piece will be directed by Robert Greer and
choreographed by Ja' Malik.
Read more: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/MISS-JULIE-to-Run-1021-118-at-August-Strindberg-Rep-20140922
Also: http://newsblaze.com/story/20140926133746jnyc.nb/topstory.html
Argentina
Aireada versión de Strindberg
Por Alberto Catena
La Nacion, 21 de septiembre de 2014
Ojo por ojo
Versión libre de: Acreedores, de August
Strindberg / Traducción y adaptación:
Augusto Fernandes / Dirección, puesta en
escena y luces: Augusto Fernandes / Elenco:
Federico Luppi, Erica Rivas y Darío Dukah /
Escenografía: Marta Albertinazzi y Augusto
Fernandes / Vestuario: Marta Albertinazzi /
Sala: Margarita Xirgu, Chacabuco 875 /
Funciones: viernes y sábados, a las 21;
domingos, a las 20.
Nuestra opinión: buena.
Silvio D'Amico decía en su Historia del
teatro universal, que August Strindberg era
un artista de potencia desigual y con una
fuerte tendencia a confundir la sinceridad
que le exigía su adscripción al naturalismo
con el deseo de expresar como tema
hegemónico de su obra lo terrible y
truculento que hay en cada vida humana. Y
agregaba que sus tonos a menudo forzados y
lúgubres tuvieron una notable influencia en
los países nórdicos y en Alemania, pero que
no sedujeron demasiado a los públicos de
habla latina. No es difícil compartir esa
aserción del teórico y crítico italiano
aunque por razones no siempre idénticas a
las que él considera.
Leer más: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1729030-aireada-version-de-strindberg
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Argentina, Buenos Aires
Érica Rivas se luce en "Ojo x
ojo"
Se trata de una obra que el director Augusto
Fernandes adaptó de la obra "Acreedores",
del sueco August Strindberg, cuyo elenco
completan Federico Luppi y Darío Dukáh, en
el porteño teatro Margarita Xirgu.
Por Hector Puyo
télam, 18.09.2014
Rivas es, en esa pieza escrita a fines del
siglo XIX, una mujer libre y encantadora
cuyos procederes torturan a su nuevo marido
(Dukáh), un pintor hipersensible despojado
de inspiración que, en un lugar de veraneo,
recibe la visita de un supuesto médico
(Luppi) que exacerba sus celos y su
desequilibrio.
Esa visita influye en el devenir de la
trama, que en el original de Strindberg va
deslizando pistas que no conviene revelar
(como tampoco es bueno recorrer la
información de prensa de la obra, que para
quien no la conoce le quita el misterio a
los hechos).
Leer más: http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201409/78641-la-actriz-rica-rivas-descuella-en-ojo-x-ojo.html
United Arab Emirates
Saibal Chatterjee: Female gaze
gains ground
By Saibal Chatterjee
The Gulf Today, September 19, 2014
Women directors seem to be having quite a
marquee year, if the 39th Toronto
International Film Festival (TIFF) is
anything to go by. Many of the more
talked-about titles at the premier 11-day
event have female names attached to them.
In a business notorious for relegating women
to positions of lesser authority and
plotting to keep them there, the steady
proliferation of women as directors is
certainly a noteworthy development, even
though it may not necessarily be indicative
of a significant shift in the entertainment
industry power balance, not as yet at any
rate.
Leading the pack here is 75-year-old Liv
Ullmann, legendary Norwegian actor best
known for her work with the late Swedish
maestro Ingmar Bergman. Her fifth
directorial effort, Miss Julie, an
adaptation of the August Strindberg play of
the same name, is in the TIFF Special
Presentations line-up.
Read more: http://gulftoday.ae/portal/03e53944-37c8-4d29-a1af-1bd1efe5ad91.aspx
UK
Play Strindberg (Ustinov
Studio)
The acting batters and blodies you in this
superb production of Play Strindberg at the
Ustinov Studio.
By Kris Hallett
What's On Stage, 18
Sep 2014 • Bath
WOS Rating: 5/5 stars
Friedrich Durrenmatt's Play Strindberg takes
that writers Dance of Death and turns it
into a boxing metaphor set over 12 bruising
comic rounds as a couple play out a death
throes of a relationship. In the Ustinov's
blazing 95 minute production it's the three
performances that keep you down for the ten
count. The Ustinov's intimate surroundings
allows for the audience to be up close to
high definition performances and has already
seen one of the performances of the year by
Tanya Moodie in Intimate Apparel. That
performance is joined by three terrific
performances here led first and foremost by
Greg Hicks as the monstrous Edgar.
Read more: http://www.whatsonstage.com/bath-theatre/reviews/play-strindberg-ustinov-studio_35805.html
De dansar Strindbergs äktenskapliga häxdans
AV Carin Ståhlberg
DN 2014-09-18
Förtal, hat och förödmjukelser. Strindbergs
”Dödsdansen” är en äktenskaplig
golgatavandring men den saknar inte
dråpligt komiska inslag. Nu repeterar en
stark skådespelartrio pjäsen på
Maximteatern i Stockholm.
– Med de här skådespelarna vore det lätt att
reducera ”Dödsdansen” till elegant
skådespelarteater. De senaste årens
produktioner har betonat komedin, jag vill
göra ett försök att vända upp andra sidor av
texten och komplicera det lite för
skådespelarna, ge de motstånd och hitta det
expressionistiska hos Strindberg. Bort från
det naturalistiska, säger Stefan Larsson som
regisserar föreställningen.
Jag träffar honom och ensemblen – Mikael
Persbrandt, Lena Endre och Thomas Hanzon –
en förmiddag strax innan dagens repetitioner
ska starta.
Läs mer: http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scen/de-dansar-strindbergs-aktenskapliga-haxdans/
UK
Play Strindberg review – a
punchy satire on the state of marriage
Dürrenmatt’s absurdist reimagining of Dance
of Death sees a husband and wife locked in a
12-round boxing match, with all the
performances scoring highly
Ustinov, Bath –
3 out of 5
By Lyn Gardner
The Guardian, Thursday 18 September 2014
Strindberg’s savage Dance of Death was
hugely influential on 20th-century European
and American theatre, providing inspiration
for any number of unhappy marriage dramas
that followed, including Eugene O’Neill’s
Long Day’s Journey into Night and Edward
Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. The
Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt revisited
Dance in this 1969 reworking of the first
part of the play. It gives Strindberg and
his imitators, perhaps even the state of
marriage itself, a playful fingers-up by
filtering the action through a mid-20th
century despair, cut with a grotesque
absurdist satire.
Hell is not just other people, but two
particular people: former actor Alice and
Edgar – a pompous army captain disappointed
by his career, children and life itself –
who for 25 years have imprisoned each other
in a relationship built on spite. They are
both determined to be the last one standing.
Dürrenmatt pares the play down and makes it
punchier, reimagining it as a 12-round
boxing match in which a gong sounds between
each round. Alice’s cousin Kurt, who arrives
after a 15-year absence, differs in
intriguing ways from Strindberg’s original
character and functions like an unexpected
stranger arriving in a Pinter play.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/18/play-strindberg-review-ustinov-bath-durrenmatt
USA
Miss Julie | 2014 TIFF Review
Touch of Class: Ullmann’s
Update of Classic Text Ultimately Lifeless
By Nicholas Bell
IonCinema!, September 16, 2014
Miss Julie Review Liv Ullmann posterThere
are a scant few equals to the texts of
playwright August Strindberg’s, his 1888
play Miss Julie still ranking as one of
theater’s most celebrated and intelligent
titles. A forerunner of a movement toward
naturalism, director Liv Ullmann pares down
the visual flourish which hearkens back to
Strindberg’s initial contrivance. Her first
film since the critically celebrated
Faithless (2000), which was written by
Ullmann’s longtime collaborator Ingmar
Bergman, the passion that burned through
that relationship drama is replaced by
reserved bouts of class driven animosity.
While true to the initial spirit of
Strindberg’s text, the focus here is devoted
nearly entirely to class issues, leaving
some of the play’s more subtle motifs rather
neglected. Considering the extravagant and
mesmerizing 1951 version from Swedish
filmmaker Alf Sjoberg, Ullmann’s adaptation
is a chewy piece of meat, a series of
laborious monologues intermittently broken
up by conservative bouts of foreplay and
sexual congress, tonally weathered by muted
emotional outbreaks.
Read more: http://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/miss-julie-review
Ibsen reducerad ner till benet
IBSENFESTIVALEN På årets festival i Oslo
råder en spelstil som i nerstrukna
uppsättningar bejakar svärtan, sorgen och
alla plågsamma insikter inför benhårda
strukturer och tvång.
SvD, 16 september 2014
Ibsenfestivalen 2014 är gul, starkt gul.
Affischer, banderoller, informationsblad.
Allt gult som höstlöv. Lagerkransen hänger
som vanligt på Ibsenstatyn utanför
Nationaltheatret. Den här gången slapp
teaterchefen Hanne Tømta att klättra på
rangliga stegar. Hon tog en skylift upp till
186-åringen. Nya tider, nya seder.
Det gäller också Ibsenfestivalen som helhet
som detta år poängterar sin internationella
status, nästan alla föreställningar textas
till engelska – och det vimlar av utländska
gäster, en brokig blandning av akademiker
och teaterfolk.
Nationaltheatret sätter själv upp fyra
Ibsenpjäser samt ”Ett drömspel” av August
Strindberg. Festivalen innehåller ett dussin
internationella gästspel och mängder av
debatter och seminarier.
Läs mer: http://www.svd.se/kultur/ibsen-reducerad-ner-till-benet_3921318.svd
USA, Chicago (Ill)
Chicago film festival
announces full 2014 slate
By Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune, September 16, 2014
Tributes to Liv Ullmann, Isabelle Huppert,
Taylor Hackford, Kathleen Turner and Oliver
Stone, all scheduled to attend, share the
slate with the latest films starring Bill
Murray ("St. Vincent"), Reese Witherspoon
("Wild") and Benedict Cumberbatch ("The
Imitation Game," which just won the audience
award at the Toronto International Film
Festival) when the 50th edition of the
Chicago International Film Festival opens
Oct. 9.
The opening night selection, previously
announced, is Ullmann's adaptation of the
August Strindberg psychodrama "Miss Julie."
"Wild," previously seen at the Telluride and
Toronto festivals, closes founder and
artistic director Michael Kutza's festival
Oct. 23.
This year's festival showcases 150 features
from 50 countries, plus 68 short films. The
primary CIFF venue remains the AMC River
East 21 multiplex, 322 E. Illinois St. in
the downtown Streeterville neighborhood.
For more information, go to the festival
website: chicagofilmfestival.com or call
312-332-3456.
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/chi-chicago-film-festival-announces-full-lineup-20140916-column.html
USA
The Best, Worst And Most Disappointing Films
Of The 2014 Toronto International Film
Festival
The Playlist (IndieWire), September
15, 2014
With literally hundreds of movies to choose
from, the Toronto International Film
Festival is a both a cinephile's dream and
nightmare, as almost every taste is catered
to. If you want to check out the movies that
will dominate the awards season
conversation, TIFF fits the bill. If you’re
eager to explore world cinema, there’s
plenty to choose from. If you want to be
adventurous and seek out movies featuring
rising talent both in front and behind the
camera, a dive into the programming will
keep you satisfied. And if you want straight
up thrills, Midnight Madness will get your
pulse racing. Although it can be
overwhelming, TIFF is a movie lover's
paradise.
[...]
“Miss Julie”
At times tiring to watch but impossible to
forget, Liv Ullmann’s “Miss Julie” is cinema
at its most painstakingly emotional. Jessica
Chastain stands out in the title role, and
while Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton
don’t look as comfortable in August
Strindberg’s claustrophobic world of passion
and prejudice, no one would be able to say
that they are bad. Neither, in fact, has
been this good in a long time, and some of
the more suspicious moments of their
performances could weave into the film’s
allure in time.
Read more:http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-best-worst-and-most-disappointing-films-of-the-2014-toronto-international-film-festival-20140915
Turkey
Curtains to Reopen Soon at
State Theaters with New Plays
Established 65 years ago, Turkish State
Theaters will welcome the new season on Oct.
1 with plays that will, mostly, be performed
for the first time this year
Daily Sabah, 16.09.2014
ANKARA — Turkish State Theaters (DT) will
open its curtains with an aim to reach 2
million people by the end of the season, and
will draw audiences from every age to
theater halls with Turkish and foreign plays
by Tarık Buğra, Reşat Nuri Güntekin,
Moliere, Arthur Miller and others. In his
statement to an Anadolu Agency (AA)
reporter, State Theaters General Manager
Mustafa Kurt said they are ready to
introduce their new season to the audience.
[...]
Foreign productions including "The Imaginary
Invalid" by Moliere, "Shakespeare in
Trouble" by Hille Darjes and Chris
Alexander, "Creditors" by August Strindberg,
"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen, "Death of a
Salesman" by Arthur Miller, "Dress Rehearsal
for a Suicide" by Dusan Kovacevic,
"Roulette" by Kosta Korditis, "Pinocchio" by
Carlo Collodi, "The Great Gatsby" by F.
Scott Fitzgerald and "The Women Lost the War
Too" by Curzio Malaparte will also be staged
across Turkey. Moreover, Tarık Buğra's
"Osmancık" (Little Osman) will be staged and
performed as a big production in the second
half of the season. State Theaters will
perform in 23 regions and on 58 stages
around Turkey.
Link: http://www.dailysabah.com/cinema/2014/09/16/curt-ains-to-reopen-soon-at-state-theaters-with-new-plays
USA
The Best Movies at TIFF 2014
By Josh Jackson, Michael Dunaway & Tim
Grierson
Paste, September 12, 2014
We just returned from this year’s Toronto
International Film Festival having watched
several dozen movies, ranging from
small-budget foreign films to Oscar
contenders. TIFF may not have the name
recognition of Sundance or Cannes, but it’s
always a great way to preview some of the
best films that will be released in the
coming months (the last seven Oscar winners
have played there). Paste’s chief film
critic Tim Grierson, movies editor Michael
Dunaway and editor-in-chief Josh Jackson
each pick their favorite movies and
performances of TIFF below.
[...]
Michael Dunaway, Movies Editor
1. Miss Julie
Halfway through Miss Julie I realized that I
should have seen this film coming. After
all, it’s based on one of the absolute
classics of the theater, by one of the
greatest writers in history, August
Strindberg. It’s been adapted and directed
by Liv Ullmann, a legendary actress herself.
And that titular role, which every ingenue
in acting school dreams of playing one day,
is being played by the greatest actress of
her generation, Jessica Chastain. How could
it not have been the best film of the
festival? To her great credit, Ullmann
doesn’t try to overly psychologize the text,
or build up to the many shifts in the
characters’ emotions. She simply lets them
play out before you, in all their baffling
whirlwind shifting and overwhelming
intensity. It’s a brutal adaptation of a
brutal play, and I never want to see it
again. But man, I’m glad I saw it once.
Link: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/09/the-best-movies-at-tiff-2014.html
Fröken fängslad igen
Av Johanna Gredfors Ottesen
Helsingborgs Dagblad, 13 september 2014
Julie och Jean: Röda rummet
Eva Zettervall
Tomarps kungsgård
Pågår till 26 oktober
När Eva Zettervall fyller Tomarps kungsgård
med sina verk ser det till att börja med ut
som en sådan utställning som är vanlig här.
Målningar hänger i prydliga rader längs
galleriets väggar, harmoniskt ordnade.
Zettervalls måleri är drivet, idébaserat och
präglat av en personlig uppsättning
symboler, där kvinnogestalter och fåglar är
särskilt frekvent förekommande. Tematiken är
ett slags egensinnig, personligt hållen
feminism, med psykologiska undertoner.
Läs mer: https://hd.se/kultur/konst/2014/09/13/froken-fangslad-igen/
Italia
Film in anteprima
Toronto 2014,
Chastain-Farrell-Morton: tris d’assi per
Miss Julie. La recensione
Gli attori portano in scena il nuovo
adattamento dell’opera teatrale di August
Strindberg, firmato dalla regista norvegese
Liv Ullmann
Di Adriano
Ercolani
Best Movie 11/09/2014
A quindici anni dal bell’adattamento
cinematografico realizzato da Mike Figgis
con protagonisti Saffron Burrows e Peter
Mullan, Liv Ullmann ha scelto di riportare
al cinema Miss Julie, capolavoro teatrale di
Strindberg. Un trio d’attori di assoluta
eccezione come Jessica Chastain, Colin
Farrell e Samantha Morton impersonano gli
unici tre personaggi in scena, impegnati in
un gioco al massacro fisico e psicologico in
cui vengono coinvolti una giovane di ricca
estrazione sociale, la sua governante e il
maggiordomo della casa in cui vivono.
Il film della Ullmann parte in maniera
sorprendentemente cinematografica:
l’attenzione alla composizione cromatica
delle inquadrature, il gioco di luci sui
volti degli attori, la bellezza dell’uso
della profondità di campo – soprattutto nei
primi piani – rendono l’incipit
preziosissimo a livello visivo.
Leggete il sito: http://www.bestmovie.it/news/toronto-2014-chastain-farrell-morton-tris-dassi-per-miss-julie-la-recensione/317042/
UK
Liv Ullmann on Miss Julie,
Donald Trump and why she hates the modern
age
Ingmar Bergman’s muse talks about directing
a version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie,
terrorism and Twitter
By Catherine Shoard
The Guardian, Thursday 11 September 2014
Liv Ullmann likes watching The Apprentice.
Or, rather, she likes it when Donald Trump
goes in and out of rooms. “I find it
tremendously interesting, his entrances and
exits. I can’t believe someone is doing this
and taking it so seriously! If you made a
movie about such a man, you would tell them
they were overacting.”
It is Trump, she thinks, who is a modern-day
Miss Julie – the queen bitch in the August
Strindberg play she’s just made into a
movie. Both are snoots sneering down from a
pedestal of their own construction. “Trump
says no to refugees trying to get into US
from Mexico. He says it’s all Obama’s fault
and he’s given them too much freedom. And he
blames him for Ebola coming in from Africa.”
Ullmann smiles, gentle and appalled and
vulnerable. “If you live in a tunnel,
hiding, then people don’t like you and in
the end they will come back and kill you.
It’s not because he’s evil. It’s that it’s
easier for him to be apart than to hold the
hand of someone homeless and alone.”
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/11/liv-ullmann-on-miss-julie-donald-trump-and-why-she-hates-the-modern-age
UK
Six things we learned from Toronto 2014
From running with the Oxbridge set to
running with the beasts, we identify the
biggest trends to emerge from the 39th
Toronto international film festival
By Henry Barnes
The Guardian, Thursday 11 September 2014
[...]
3 It’s time to talk to the animals
Those grunting and squeaking and squawking
with the beasts included Justin Long,
transmogrified into a walrus in Kevin
Smith’s comedy-horror Tusk; Reese
Witherspoon, howling at the moon with the
wolves of Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild; and
Jessica Chastain, cavorting with Colin
Farrell in Miss Julie, Liv Ullmann’s
adaptation of the August Strindberg play.
We’re not being unnecessarily cruel to
Farrell – upper-class Miss Julie (Chastain)
compares dallying with the lower orders to
bestiality. Not that that stops her. Classy
bird.
Link: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/11/six-things-learned-toronto-2014-film-festival
Canada, Toronto
A subtler side to Strindberg’s
Miss Julie
By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
The Globe and Mail Thursday, Sep. 11 2014
Almost nobody who films a classic play does
the whole thing without cuts. It’s less
common to add a whole new scene to the heart
of the piece, as Liv Ullmann does in her
adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 play,
Miss Julie.
The long one-act drama portrays a lethal
upstairs-downstairs liaison in a Swedish
country manor on a midsummer night.
Strindberg has the sexual tryst occurring
offstage, but Ullmann follows the
aristocratic title character and her servant
lover into the bedroom and gives them
several minutes of new dialogue.
Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/awards-and-festivals/tiff/a-subtler-side-to-stringbergs-miss-julie/article20559493/
USA
50th Chicago International Film
Festival to Open With Liv Ullmann’s Torrid
Adaptation of August Strindberg Play “Miss
Julie”
CopyLine, September
- 10 - 2014
Oct. 9 Festival Opener Stars Jessica
Chastain and Colin Farrell
CHICAGO, IL –The 50th Chicago International
Film Festival (October 9-23, 2014) announces
the selection of “Miss Julie,” directed by
veteran actress and Ingmar Bergman
collaborator Liv Ullmann and starring Golden
Globe®-award winning actors Jessica
Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton
as its Opening Night film. “Miss Julie” will
screen October 9 at the Harris Theater (205
E. Randolph Dr.). The red carpet event
starts at 6 p.m. Director Liv Ullmann is
scheduled to attend.
Read more: http://www.copylinemagazine.com/2014/09/10/50th-chicago-international-film-festival-to-open-with-liv-ullmanns-torrid-adaptation-of-august-strindberg-play-miss-julie/
Strindberg nytolkas i New York
Hommage till Strindberg i New York
Av Agneta Furvik, New York
SR, P1, Kulturnytt tisdag
9 september 2014
I fredags var premiär för den
skandinavisk-amerikanska uppsättningen
"Bastards of Strindberg" i New York. Lilla
Scandinavian American Theatre Company har
låtit fyra samtida dramatiker skriva nya,
korta tolkningar av Strindbergs klassiska
"Fröken Julie".
Vägen in till den lilla off-Broadwayteatern
"The Lion" går via den som vanligt larmiga
och stökiga fyrtioandra gatan, fortysecond
street. Den senaste klubbmusiken dunkar i
bilarna, människor hojtar, allt är very New
York.
Läs mer/lyssna: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=5958945
USA, Pasadena
(CA)
A Noise Within Continues its
2014-2015 Season with The Importance of
Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Sunday, September 21 to Saturday, November
22, 2014
Pasaden Now, Monday, September 8, 2014
[...]
A Noise Within’s 2014-2015 Season
Informed by the climate of social and
economic upheaval in which we live, the
season’s theme—reflected in a kaleidoscopic
palette of plays—is REVOLUTION. After The
Tempest, the season continues with The Dance
of Death by August Strindberg (Oct 12- Nov
23, 2014) in a new version by Conor
McPherson (West Coast premiere).
Link: http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/a-noise-within-continues-its-2014-2015-season-with-the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde
USA
Toronto Film Review: The Look
of Silence, The Face of an Angel, & Miss
Julie
By Tomas Hachard
Slant, September
8, 2014
[...]
Liv Ullmann's Miss Julie transplants August
Strindberg's play of the same name to
late-19th-century Ireland and the estate of
the eponymous lead (Jessica Chastain), who
sets out to seduce one of her father's
servants, John (Colin Farrell). The setup
paves the way for an extended class battle
between the two, an exercise that's by no
means outdated in content; the admonition
that "class is class," which is spoken by
the house cook and John's lover, Kathleen
(Samantha Morton), could easily have fit in
The Riot Club, a contemporary take on
British class divisions that's also playing
at the Toronto International Film Festival.
However, the movie does feel outdated in
expression. Some of the problems—the
third-act religious sermonizing and
melodramatic emphasis on the consequences of
tarnishing Miss Julie's name—no doubt
originate in Strindberg's play.
Read more: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2014/08/toronto-film-review-the-look-of-silence-the-face-of-an-angel-miss-julie
Norway
Record film season shows off Norway
By Nina Berglund
News in English.no, September 8, 2014
UPDATED: Norwegian films may not be known
for producing profits at the box office but
they are producing a certain amount of
prestige. By the time Liv Ullmann’s new film
Frøken Julie (Miss Julie) premiered to rave
reviews at the Toronto International Film
Festival over the weekend, two other new
Norwegian films already had been shown there
as well.
[...]
Standing ovation for Ullmann
Miss Julie was generating a lot of the hype
at the festival, though, not least because
of the stature of its director, Norwegian
film legend Liv Ullmann. She has adapted
August Strindberg’s play Frøken Julie to be
set not in Strindberg’s native Sweden but in
Ireland, as a battle of the sexes and social
classes. Ullmann also wrote the screenplay
for what the film institute calls her
“updated English-language costume drama.” It
premieres in Norway on September 12.
Read more: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2014/09/08/record-film-season-shows-off-norway/
USA
TIFF Review: Liv Ullmann’s ‘Miss Julie’
Starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell &
Samantha Morton
By Nikola Grozdanovic
The Playlist (IndieWire), september 7, 2014
It’s taken close to 15 years for her to
return to the director’s chair, followed by
months of speculation once news of
production hit, but Liv Ullmann has finally
unveiled her new film at the Toronto
International Film Festival. “Miss Julie,”
the infamous play by August Strindberg
adapted for the screen and stage in multiple
countries and languages, gets an Anglophone
interpretation from the legendary Norwegian
actress. This version is set in Ireland and
stars a trio of familiar faces, Jessica
Chastain, Colin Farrell, and Samantha
Morton. The film has all the makings of a
special occasion; the return of Ullmann, the
continuation of the "Chastainaissance,"
Colin Farrell in a respectable film again.
It’s no surprise that we were swept up in
all the excitement (the film was a shoe-in
for our 15 most anticipated TIFF films) and
yet, now that we’ve finally seen it, color
us disenchanted.
Read more: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/review-liv-ullmanns-miss-julie-starring-jessica-chastain-colin-farrell-samantha-morton-20140907
USA
Toronto Film Review: ‘Miss Julie’
Liv Ullmann's worshipful but static
adaptation of the classic Strindberg play
fails to work as a film, despite impressive
perfs.
By Dennis Harvey
Variety September 7, 2014
Scrupulous fidelity to the source material
makes Liv Ullmann’s adaptation of “Miss
Julie” perfect for theater classes, but also
keeps this latest version of Strindberg’s
1888 drama from coming alive onscreen.
There’s much to admire in the performances
of Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and
Samantha Morton, embodying a psychosexual
triangle that implodes during a few hours’
span, but admiration rather than emotional
involvement is the most one feels here.
Compared to what remains the work’s filmic
gold standard, Alf Sjoberg’s classic 1951
version, this is a glorified performance
record of what might have been a fine stage
production, but one that has sadly turned
rather tedious in the translation. It would
probably play better as a prestige tube
item; niche theatrical prospects are minor.
As helmer and adapter, Ullmann has taken
major liberties that include paring away all
minor roles (even most references to them)
in order to focus exclusively on the leading
character trio, and, for the sake of an
English-language cast, transposing the
action from late-19th-century rural Sweden
to Ireland in the same era. She also adds a
brief prologue showing the young Julie,
played by Nora McMenamy, as a lonely,
motherless child.
Read more: http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/toronto-film-review-miss-julie-1201300373/
USA, New York (NY)
Bastards of Strindberg at
Theatre Row
NY Theater Review By Eric J. Grimm
Theaterpizzazz, September 6, 2014
Four contemporary playwrights take on August
Strindberg’s Miss Julie in Scandinavian
American Theater Company’s Bastards of
Strindberg. The four short plays reimagine
the tale of aristocratic Julie, who engages
in a power play with servant Jean while his
girlfriend Kristin dozes off nearby.
Strindberg is notorious for his misogyny and
these short plays address it by giving most
of the power to the various incarnations of
Julie and Kristin. The result is often
fairly heavy-handed with over-explanatory
dialogue, though one of the plays fulfills
the promise of the concept.
Read more: http://www.theaterpizzazz.com/bastards-strindberg-theatre-row/
USA, New York (NY)
Bastards of Strindberg
By Dominique Morisseau, David Bar Katz,
Andreas Boonstra, Lina Ekdahl; Directed by
Henning Hegland and Alicia Dhyana House
Produced by Scandinavian American Theater
Company
By Lee Kinney
Theasy, 9.5.14
Off Broadway, Play Adaptations
Runs through 9.21.14
Lion Theater at Theater Row, 410 West 42nd
Street
BOTTOM LINE: A diverse look at one of modern
drama’s most adapted plays is equal parts
poignant and ponderous.
One can imagine August Strindberg, founding
father of Naturalism in the European
theater, squirming in his century-old grave
as Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz begins an evening
of Miss Julie-inspired shorts addressing the
audience as a matured iteration of
Strindberg’s most talked about titular
character: “I once told a friend about
things I’d done one midsummer night many
years ago. And he wrote a play about it. His
play was considered ‘naturalistic.’ At least
to anyone it wasn’t based on.”
But maybe he’s not squirming. What is most
successful about Bastards of Strindberg, the
Scandinavian American Theater Company’s
final production of it’s 5th anniversary
season, is the way it embraces and extends
the spirit of Strindberg’s work. In the
preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg encourages
intimacy and a move away from outdated
formalism. The four plays featured in SATC’s
production react to Strindberg’s work with a
similar attitude.
Read more: http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/2014/B/bastardsofstrindberg.php
UK
‘Thriving Witney should have a
rival to Oxford’s theatres’
By Dan Robinson
Oxford Mail, Friday 5 September 2014
A SCREENWRITER for children’s TV programmes
is hoping to fill a cultural void by setting
up a professional theatre company in Witney.
Adrian Hewitt, 51, has launched the Witney
Theatre Company because he felt the town was
missing out.
The first production, an adult performance
of August Strindberg’s classic play Miss
Julie, will be staged at Cogges Manor Farm
Museum at the end of the month.
Mr Hewitt, who moved to the town from
Somerset in June last year, said: “When I
came here I thought there should be a
theatre.
Read more:http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11453744.___Thriving_town_should_have_a_rival_to_Oxford___s_theatres___/
USA, New
York (NY)
Things That Didn’t Happen in
‘Miss Julie’
‘Bastards of Strindberg,’ Four Short Plays
at the Lion
By Charles Isherwood
New York Times, Sept. 5, 2014
A staple of the theater is deconstructed,
reconstructed, teased or rewritten through
the sensibilities of four different writers
in “Bastards of Strindberg,” a collection of
short plays inspired by “Miss Julie,” being
presented at the Lion Theater by the
Scandinavian American Theater Company.
August Strindberg’s heated drama about the
combustion that occurs when a footman and a
count’s daughter spend a tempestuous night
together has remained surprisingly present
on both stage and screen. A new film version
with Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell is
due soon, and a South African production was
acclaimed when it played at St. Ann’s
Warehouse in 2012. Now the play has been put
under a refracting lens by two Swedish
writers, Lina Ekdahl and Andreas Boonstra,
and two Americans, David Bar Katz and
Dominique Morisseau.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/theater/bastards-of-strindberg-four-short-plays-at-the-lion.html
Singapore
Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Mies
Julie’ by Yaël Farber (Based on Strindberg)
By: Sharmila Melissa Yogalingam
BC September
5, 2014
Singapore Repertory Theatre presents Mies
Julie, slated to run at the DBS Arts Centre
from 27 August to 13 September 2014.
Written and directed by Yaël Farber, and
based on the play by August Strindberg, with
music composed by Daniel and Matthew Pencer,
Mies Julie tells the sensuous tale of black
farmhand John (Bongile Mantsai) who works
with his mother Christine (Zoleka Helesi) in
the kitchen of a South African home, at a
time when apartheid has been recently
abolished.
The home is owned by a white family, but the
daughter of the homeowner, Julie (Hilda
Cronjé), was brought up by Christine after
being shunned by her own mother. One night,
when Julie professes her sexual attraction
to John, their complicated upbringing and
backgrounds, along with their class and race
differences, tangle with their raw feelings
for one another to culminate in what could
be a turning point in both their lives.
Read more: http://blogcritics.org/theatre-review-singapore-mies-julie-by-yael-farber-based-on-strindberg/
USA, New York (NY)
‘Bastards of Strindberg’ a fitting
tribute to Swedish playwright
By David Froomkin
Columbia Spectator September 4, 2014
“Bastards of Strindberg” seeks to lend
familiarity to a perhaps distant world,
while also exposing our distance from many
things that should be familiar. In so doing,
it explores themes of sexuality, gender
politics, and class conflict, as well as
more theoretical issues of intertextuality
and drama.
The work is a collection of four short plays
by different authors, produced by the
Scandinavian American Theater Company in
honor of Swedish playwright August
Strindberg. It is directed by Henning
Hegland and Alicia Dhyana House, both
graduates of Columbia’s MFA program in
directing. As the title suggests, the plays
expand on, or offer alternative
possibilities for, Strindberg’s “Miss
Julie.” The plays are, for the most part,
fairly abstract, bridged by expressive dance
sections. The ensemble cast is always
onstage, at turns impassive, engaged, and
asleep. They frequently break character, and
sometimes the fourth wall.
Read more: http://columbiaspectator.com/arts-and-entertainment/2014/09/04/%E2%80%98bastards-strindberg-fitting-tribute-swedish-playwright
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"Dödsdansen" på Strindbergs
Intima Teater
Av Maria Edström
SR, P1, Kulturnytt 3 september kl 06:00
”Dödsdansen”som hade premiär i somras på
Skottorps slott utanför Laholm och som i
helgen hade premiär på August Strindbergs
Intima Teater vid Norra Bantorget i
Stockholm startar höstsäsongen på titanens
egen teater. För regin står Görel Crona som
också spelar rollen som Alice och som Edgar
ser vi Johannes Brost. Maria Edström har
sett ”Dödsdansen”
Lite otippat står Janne Schaffer för musiken
och det anger liksom tonen för hela
föreställningen.
En uppstoppad örn, några riff och en dialog
som låter som samplad från nån av sommarens
grillkvällar. Görel Cronas ”Dödsdansen” är
fylld av stilbrytningar och tidskrockar på
ett totalt otrendigt och egensinnigt vis.
Inget är avskalat, snyggt eller distanserat
och det är helt underbart. För i den här
lite bråtiga stilen låter Strindbergs alltid
lika levande replikföring som vore vi på
besök hos ett sånt där par som man rätt
tidigt anar kan bli väldigt jobbiga innan
kvällen är slut.
Läs mer/lyssna: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=5954039
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USA, Minneapolis (MN)
Theatre Coup d’Etat To Stage August
Strindberg’s Classic Play Miss Julie at the
American Swedish Institute
American Swedish Institute
Press Release: Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Ivey-Award Winning Troupe Will Perform In
The Historic Turnblad Mansion Ballroom
October 1 - 26
MINNEAPOLIS — Originally banned in multiple
countries, Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie
is an examination of power in all its
various manifestations. Set on Midsummer’s
Eve, Miss Julie thrusts the audience into
the wild upheaval of the celebration and hot
summer night. Strindberg fearlessly tackles
the forever raging battle of the sexes while
also hitting upon class, love, and even
lust, in this 90 minute tour-de-force by
Sweden’s best-known playwright.
Raed more: http://www.asimn.org/about-us/press-room/theatre-coup-detat-stage-august-strindbergs-classic-play-miss-julie-american
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Argentina
Corazón salvaje
Por Guadalupe Treibel
Pagian 12, Viernes, 29 de agosto de 2014
Mientras interpreta a una novia sacada
–vestida como tal y manchada de sangre– en
el éxito más rotundo del cine local de los
últimos tiempos, Relatos salvajes, de Damián
Szifron, Erica Rivas protagoniza en teatro
bajo la dirección de Augusto Fernándes Ojo
por ojo, una adaptación de Acreedores, de J.
A. Strindberg, y se prepara para hacer en el
verano, junto a Ricardo Darín, Escenas de la
vida conyugal. Tanta reflexión en torno de
la institución del matrimonio le sirve para
poner en cuestión esta y otras delicias de
la vida de las mujeres con una lúcida mirada
de género. Aquí la voz de una actriz que
merece de sobra el buen momento que está
pasando.
Camaleónico, el descollante presente de
Erica Rivas se manifiesta de variopintas
maneras, y todas dejan en evidencia cómo
esta actriz de formación y vocación se
entrega de oficio con generosidad y sin
restricciones. Lo hace en carácter de novia
a punto de explosionar (que, por supuesto,
explosiona) en el segmento final de Relatos
salvajes, la película de Damián Szifron que,
tras su paso por el Festival de Cannes,
continúa sumando entusiasmos de críticos y
espectadores. Lo hace en Ojo por ojo, la
adaptación de Acreedores, del genial August
Strindberg, que, además de evidenciar el
aspecto simbiótico de algunas parejas,
criticar la institución matrimonial y
cuestionar el rol de mujeres y varones,
significa el auspicioso regreso de Augusto
Fernándes a la puesta teatral.
Leer más: http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/las12/13-9083-2014-08-29.html
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Singapore
REVIEW: Mies Julie Draws Audience in With
Raw Sexual Whirlpool
By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop
BlouinArtinfo, August 29, 2014
Lust, sex, violence, death, “Mies Julie,”
now playing at the DBS Arts Centre, is an
emotional production that puts the spotlight
on the ongoing social tensions in South
Africa nearly twenty years after the end of
apartheid.
As black farm workers and squatters
celebrate Freedom Day, the anniversary of
the end of apartheid, true freedom for all
eludes many elusive especially on the
isolated farm owned by a white Afrikaan
where tensions over land rights are coming
to a head. The drama is no less intense
inside the farmhouse kitchen where the
farmer’s daughter, Julie (Hilda Cronje) is
embarking on a mutually destructive
relationship with John (Bongile Mantsai), a
favored farmhand and son of the housekeeper,
Christine (Zoleka Helesi).
From tense foreplay to a sexually explosive
encounter, the relationship quickly moves
into a power struggle between the two main
characters whose feelings are burdened by
the full weight of their families’ long
history and society’s pressures.
Read more: http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1051867/review-mies-julie-draws-audience-in-with-raw-sexual-whirlpool
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USA, Toledo (OH)
UT theater department to mark
50 years
By Sue Brickey
The Blade 8/28/2014
The University of Toledo Department of
Theatre and Film will throw itself a party,
“50 Years of WOW!,” Sept. 19-21 to celebrate
five decades of creativity on stage and in
film.
[...]
August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, written in
1888, will be staged in November. Miss
Julie, feeling trapped by her life on a
Victorian-era estate, begins what may become
a costly relationship with her father’s
valet. Miss Julie opens Nov. 21. Additional
performances are Nov. 22-23 and Dec. 5-7.
Link: http://www.toledoblade.com/Peach-Weekender/2014/08/28/UT-theater-department-to-mark-50-years.html
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USA, New York (NY)
Theater Listings for Aug.
29-Sept. 4
By The New York Times, AUG. 28, 2014
[...]
Previews and Openings
‘Bastards of Strindberg’ (previews start on
Tuesday; opens next Friday) In 1889, the
Swedish playwright August Strindberg
scandalized censors and critics with “Miss
Julie,” which presents a brief, desparate
affair between a noblewoman and her father’s
valet. Does the play still shock us today?
The Scandinavian American Theater Company
has commissioned four playwrights (Dominique
Morisseau, David Bar Katz, Andreas Boonstra
and Lina Ekdahl) to create short plays in
response to Strindberg’s sex tragedy.
Henning Hegland and Alicia Dhyan House
direct the late-summer tumult. Lion Theater
at Theater Row, 410 West 42nd Street,
Clinton, 212-239-6200, telecharge.com.
(Alexis Soloski)
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/theater/theater-listings-for-aug-29-sept-4.html?_r=0
Välspelad tittskåpsteater utan
samtidskontakt
Av Ylva Lagercrantz Spindler
SvD 29
augusti 2014
Teater Dödsdansen
Strindbergs intima teater
Regi: Görel Crona.
Medv: Görel Crona, Johannes Brost, Henrik
Norman, Anders Axelsson
Musik: Janne Schaffer
År 1909 hade Strindbergs ”Dödsdansen” svensk
urpremiär på Strindbergs intima teater. När
Görel Crona 105 år senare gästspelar med sin
uppsättning av pjäsen på den återuppståndna
teatern, så är det som om tiden hade stått
stilla. Som om allt det brus som pågår
utanför vid Norra Bantorget – slutspurten av
valaffischer med slagord om feminism och
jämställdhet, och romer sovande i sina
tältläger längs med Olof Palmes gata – bara
vore en skuggvärld.
Inne på teatern råder i stället mörker och
märklig stillhet. Som bevittnade vi något
historiskt: en kärnfamiljens och det
heterosexuella äktenskapets sista utpost,
ett museiföremål i form av en
tittskåpsteater i en monter, komplett med
snörliv och dammig lagerkrans och där bara
Janne Schaffers ny- och specialkomponerade
musik får oss att vakna till och förstå att
detta faktiskt utspelas år 2014.
Läs mer: http://www.svd.se/kultur/scen/valspelad-tittskapsteater-utan-samtidskontakt_3866618.svd
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Singapore
Theatre Review: Mies Julie is a
potent mix of race, class and sex set in
South Africa
By Huang Lijie
The Straits Time Aug 28, 2014
When wars on race, class and sexuality have
been fought, with some concessions won and
boundaries erased, perhaps the greatest
remaining scandal, and tragedy, is for
people to be paralysed by their newfound
freedom.
This twisted paradox is what shocks a
19th-century play, Miss Julie, by Swedish
playwright August Strindberg back to life on
stage in a pulsating and tightly wound
adaptation by South African writer-director
Yael Farber.
In the original Miss Julie, the titular
character, daughter of an aristocrat, enters
into a sexual relationship with her married
manservant, offending taboos of class,
gender and sexuality in the late 1800s.
Farber updates Strindberg's work by
transposing it from 19th century Europe to
contemporary South Africa 20 years after the
apartheid ended in 1994 on Freedom Day, the
country's first democratic election. And she
sets it in the semi-desert region of Karoo
where social-political conservatism prevails
as a way of life even after two decades. In
using South Africa's tumultuous history,
fraught with tensions over race, power, land
and affiliations as a backdrop, the play
regains its provocative edge.
Link: http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/theatre-dance/story/theatre-review-mies-julie-potent-mix-race-class-and-sex-set-south-afri
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Italia
TOP Teatri Off Padova al
debutto con Il Padre di August Strindberg
Padova News, Mercoledì
27 Agosto 2014
Sabato 30 agosto al Parco delle Arti di
Padova debutto sul palco per la Cooperativa
D'Impresa Sociale TOP ''' Teatri Off Padova.
E' 'Il Padre' di August Strindberg l'opera
che la Cooperativa D'Impresa Sociale TOP '''
Teatri Off Padova ha scelto come prima
produzione per il suo debutto, sabato 30
agosto alle 21.30, al Parco delle Arti di
Padova. Molto piu' della semplice
condivisione artistica di uno spettacolo, la
produzione, che vede per la prima volta
riuniti cinque teatri – Teatro de
LiNUTILE, Teatrocontinuo, TPR ''' Teatro
Popolare di Ricerca, Carichi Sospesi,
Amistad Teatro – in un unica realta'
cooperativa denominata 'TOP ''' Teatri Off
Padova', la messa in scena de 'Il Padre'
testimonia la capacita' di queste realta'
teatrali di fare rete e team building
nonche' di fondere cifre artistiche molto
diverse tra loro in un unico importante
progetto.
Leggete il sito: http://www.padovanews.it/notizie-di-padova-e-provincia/arte-e-cultura/289331-top-teatri-off-padova-al-debutto-con-il-padre-di-august-strindberg.html
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USA, Minneapolis (MN)
August Strindberg's old-school selfies at
the American Swedish Institute
By Sheila Regan
CityPages, Aug.
25 2014
You may think of the selfie as a relatively
new invention to arise in the age of
Facebook and Instagram, but it turns out the
practice has been going on for quite some
time, way before cell phones. In "The Image
of Strindberg" at the American Swedish
Institute, 32 framed photographs and modern
prints of the playwright are on display. The
exhibit, produced by Fotografiska, the
Swedish Museum of Photography, gives a
fascinating look at the infamous
megalomaniac and his fixation with himself
and his own image.
Read more: http://blogs.citypages.com/dressingroom/2014/08/strindbergs_selfies.php
Polarpristagaren: ”Gergievs
situation komplicerad”
Av Sverker Lenas
DN 2014-08-26
Polarpristagaren Peter Sellars har gjort sig
känd som en radikal regissör som vägrar att
kompromissa. Däremot har han en förståelse
för att hans kollega Valerij Gergiev
kompromissar med Putin.
Peter Sellars hälsar alltid på alla han
träffar med en stor kram. Med sin
elektrifierade frisyr, sina färgglada
halsband och sitt dånande skratt ger den
karismatiske teater- och operaregissören
intryck av att ha klivit rakt ut ur en
fantasyroman av J R R Tolkien.
[...]
– Mycket av mitt imaginära, konstnärliga liv
finns i Stockholm. När jag var ung drömde
jag om att arbeta på Dramaten. Jag är besatt
av Strindberg och jag ansåg att teaterns
högsta nivå uppnåddes här i Stockholm.
Varför är du besatt av August Strindberg?
– Han pjäser är så visionära. Jag tror inte
att någon ännu vet hur man egentligen ska
sätta upp dem. Det jag helst av allt skulle
vilja göra i dag är ”Till Damaskus”. På
Dramaten, genast. ”Till Damaskus” är vad som
utspelar sig i dag när Syrien slits i bitar.
För mig är Strindberg så kraftfull, har en
sådan intensitet och ett sådant mod. Världen
behöver Strindbergs mod just nu, säger han.
Läs mer: http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/polarpristagaren-gergievs-situation-komplicerad/
Argentina
"Tengo habilidad para hacer
cosas de mi exclusivo gusto"
El actor regresa al teatro el próximo
viernes con Ojo por ojo, dirigido por
Augusto Fernandes. La nostalgia del campo y
el recuerdo de un golpe irracional que le
marcó la vida.
TodoShow, 23 de agosto 2014
Estuvo en lugares increíbles de la
naturaleza, se tiró en el pasto de esos
paisajes, miró hacia el cielo y pensó que le
gustaría terminar sus días ahí. Esos
recuerdos evoca Federico Luppi cuando piensa
en sus viajes por el campo argentino o por
zonas rurales de España. Se identifica con
esa vida. La silla en la puerta, las hojas
que vuelan, un río, un arroyo. A los 80
años, el actor viaja en colectivo y no
abandona el traje impecable y el pañuelo en
el cuello, aunque la térmica llegue a los 30
grados, publicó Tiempo Argentino. Añora otro
ambiente, alejado del ruido compulsivo y los
edificios altos, pero dice que ese sueño no
lo cumplirá jamás.
–¿Por qué?
–Porque me convertí en un dinosaurio
citadino.
Federico Luppi estrenará el viernes próximo
la obra Ojo por ojo, en la que actúa junto a
Érica Rivas y Darío Dukah, dirigidos por
Augusto Fernandes, un artista de larga
trayectoria y maestro de actores. El
espectáculo es una versión libre del clásico
Acreedores de August Strindberg. Hay algo
que sorprende acerca de este estreno: es la
primera vez que Federico Luppi interpreta un
texto clásico. El actor de las películas
Plata dulce o Martín (Hache) nunca
interpretó textos de un autor histórico y
consagrado. "No me tocó, no sé por qué. Lo
hubiera hecho. Siempre hice obras más
contemporáneas. Los autores clásicos te
patean al ego. Uno se pregunta si está a la
altura, si puede hacerse cargo de ese texto.
Es arañar el cielo con las uñas del dedo
gordo", piensa.
Leer más: http://todoshow.infonews.com/2014/08/23/todoshow-158808-tengo-habilidad-para-hacer-cosas-de-mi-exclusivo-gusto.php
Singapore
Class and gender issues clash
with race in Mies Julie
South African writer-director Yael Farber
says the effects of apartheid will take
years to heal
By Mayo Martin
Today, August 23, 2014
Along with acclaimed choreographer Mamela
Nyamza’s highly charged double-bill, I Stand
Corrected and Hatched at the Singapore
International Festival Of Arts — which
tackle issues on gender, identity and
violence in the African country — is
Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Mies Julie.
First written in 1888, it’s an adaptation of
the acclaimed August Strindberg play, Miss
Julie. This time, writer-director Yael
Farber has transformed it into a play that
speaks and reflects closely the South
African conditions in the post-apartheid
era.
Read more: http://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/class-and-gender-issues-clash-race-mies-julie
Argentina
TEATRO › AUGUSTO FERNANDES HABLA DE SU
PUESTA DE OJO POR OJO, SOBRE AUGUST
STRINDBERG
“Todos vivimos un momento de
cambios”
Por Hilda Cabrera
Página/12, 22 de agosto de 2014
Inspirado en una pieza del gran dramaturgo
sueco, el espectáculo propone una nueva
danza macabra, esta vez alrededor de temas
como el prestigio y el manejo de la opinión
pública. Federico Luppi, Erica Rivas y Darío
Dukah protagonizan la obra.
Las relaciones hostiles en un clima de mutua
dependencia pueden resumirse en diálogos
peligrosamente sencillos, como los que se
suceden en el nuevo estreno del director y
actor, régisseur y docente Augusto
Fernandes, quien regresa al teatro con Ojo
por ojo, título que anticipa una venganza o
un castigo idéntico al mal que otro ha
infligido. Se trata de una versión libre de
Acreedores (1888), del dramaturgo y
novelista sueco August Strindberg
(1849-1912), el mismo de El padre, La
señorita Julia, Danza macabra y Sonata de
espectros.
Leer más: http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/10-33128-2014-08-22.html
USA, Chicago (Ill)
The 2014 Equity Jeff Award nominees are ...
By Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune, August
21, 2014
The flying kilts of "Brigadoon," the
immortal barricades of "Les Miserables" and,
in general, the lively revivals of
director-choreographer Rachel Rockwell
dominate the 2014 Joseph Jefferson Award
nominations, announced Thursday by the
all-volunteer committee that annually honors
what it considers to be the best in Chicago
theater.
The Jeff Committee's collective head also
was turned by Rebecca Gilman's new drama at
the Goodman Theatre, "Luna Gale," and by the
intense revival of August Strindberg's "The
Dance of Death," at Writers Theatre in
Glencoe. All four of those shows scored
between six and nine nominations apiece.
USA
Watch: Colin Farrell Falls In Love
With Jessica Chastain In First Two Clips
From 'Miss Julie'
By Kevin Jagernauth
The Playlist (IndieWire), Augusti
22, 2014
As we start making our festival schedules,
cross-checking them with movies we want to
see versus what scheduling conflicts will
allow, it can mean that sometimes we need to
be reminded about many high-profile movies
coming our way. One to look out for over the
next few weeks is Liv Ullman's "Miss Julie."
And the first two clips are here to give a
taste of what the charged romance will be
bringing to the cinematic table.
Read/see more: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-colin-farrell-falls-in-love-with-jessica-chastain-in-first-two-clips-from-miss-julie-20140822
Italia
Top – teatri off padova al debutto con “il
padre di august strindberg
Viagginrete 30/08/2014
Sabato 30 agosto al Parco delle Arti di
Padova debutto sul palco per la Cooperativa
D’Impresa Sociale TOP – Teatri Off Padova.
E’ “Il Padre” di August Strindberg l’opera
che la Cooperativa D’Impresa Sociale TOP –
Teatri Off Padova ha scelto come prima
produzione per il suo debutto, sabato 30
agosto alle 21.30, al Parco delle Arti di
Padova.
Leggete il sito: http://www.viagginrete-it.it/eventi/evento.asp?id=50269
Malta
A two-weekend theatre bonanza
Malta Independent, 19
August 2014
Theatre and drama lovers are in for a real
treat. The last two weekends of August will
be seeing the first edition of the Malta
International Theatre Festival organized by
the Malta Drama Centre in collaboration with
the Directorate of Lifelong learning and
Early School Leavers and the Ministry of
Finance and will feature two foreign and
five local theatre companies.
The Malta International Theatre Festival
which will be held between 22 and 31 August
at the Greek Theatre within the precincts of
Maria Regina Girls’ Seconday in Blata
l-Bajda, is being launched to commemorate
the 20th Anniversary (1994-2014) since the
official establishment of the Malta Drama
Centre as the national performing arts
school under the Department of Education.
The Malta Drama Centre is nowadays one of
the centres under the Directorate for
Lifelong Learning and Early School Leavers.
[...]
The first weekend of the festival (between
22 and 24 August) will include four
different one-act plays, three of which from
Malta and one from the United Kingdom. The
three local productions are ‘The Stronger’
by August Strindberg produced by TAC Theatre
and directed by Marc Cabourdain, ‘Ghal
Dejjem’ by Claudio Carta, a physical theatre
performance produced by Sense of Play and
directed and performed by Carta himself and
‘Coco’s Fabulous Speed Dating Soiree’
written and directed by Vikesh Godhwani and
produced by Frolic Theatre.
Read more: http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-08-19/arts-and-culture/a-two-weekend-theatre-bonanza-6261112835/
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Singapore
South African
drama Mies Julie sizzles with erotic
heat
A South African adaptation of
Strindberg's classic play is an
unflinching look at race and sexual
issues
By Lisabel Ting
The Straits Times, Aug 19, 2014
See the ragged, beating heart of South
Africa ripped out and laid bare on stage
in Mies Julie, a blazing modern
adaptation of Swedish playwright August
Strindberg's 19th-century classic.
Two years after a sensational premiere
at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the
play will open here at the DBS Arts
Centre on Aug 27. It is produced by the
Baxter Theatre Centre at the University
of Cape Town in association with the
South African State Theatre and
presented here by the Singapore
Repertory Theatre.
While Strindberg's original was set more
than a century ago in Europe, South
African writer-director Yael Farber
transports the audience to the present,
in the semi-desert Karoo region of her
country.
On Freedom Day, which marks the
anniversary of the first democratic
election held in 1994, the white
daughter of a farmer, Miss Julie, gets
swept up in a battle of words and worlds
with black family servant John.
Read more:
http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/theatre-dance/story/south-african-drama-mies-julie-sizzles-erotic-heat-20140819
Watch! Farrell and
Chastain in Miss Julie
RTE, Sunday 17 Aug 2014
A new trailer for Jessica Chastain and
Colin Farrell's upcoming movie Miss
Julie has been released, check it out
here.
Link:
http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2014/0817/637631-watch-farrell-and-chastain-in-miss-julie/
&
http://shepfromtamp.com/tag/august-strindberg/
Gunnar Ollén
Av Sven Tollin
Sydsvenska Dagbladet 16 augusti 2014
Gunnar Ollén, Malmö, har, som tidigare
meddelats, avlidit i en ålder av 100 år.
Han sörjs närmast av hustrun Kirsten och
barnen Gunhild, Lil, Joakim, Peter och
Theresa med familjer.
”En klok och vältalig, vördnadsbjudande
åldring”. Så fint beröms kung Nestor av
Homeros i Iliaden och Odyssén. Dessa
superlativer passar alldeles utmärkt in
på den 100-årige professor Gunnar Ollén
som nu fullbordat sitt mångfacetterade,
helt unika livsverk i humanismens
tjänst.
Han var ju också en nestor i många
sammanhang, inte minst i den bok,
”Forskarliv”, som Strindbergssällskapet
stod för i samband med hans 90-årsdag.
Här sammanfattas hans lysande bana som
akademiker, forskare radio- och
tv-pionjär och inte minst som
författare. Det blev inte mindre än ett
femtiotal skrifter med ”Bordtennis” 1940
som den första – Gunnar var en av
Sveriges bästa bordtennisspelare och var
också lagledare för landslaget. Det
sista alstret blev ”Det underbara som
kom genom luften, en personlig
redogörelse för utvecklingen av Sveriges
radio/tv i Malmö 1925–1975” där Gunnar
var med i nära trettio år på ett mycket
framgångsrikt sätt.
Men mest magnifikt i hans produktion är
resultatet av hans forskning kring
favoritförfattaren August Strindberg.
Gunnar har i hela nitton band av
Nationalupplagan av Strindbergs texter
bidragit med både redigering och
kommentarer.
När man tar del av Gunnars fantastiska
meriter så frågar man sig: hur i all sin
dar har han hunnit med och orkat allt
detta? Hans mångårige medarbetare
tv-producenten Bengt Roslund har nog i
sin nyutkomna bok ”Skam den som ger sig”
nyckeln till fenomenet, då han skriver:
”Det som Gunnar Ollén bestämt sig för
att genomföra, det lyckades han med.
Förr eller senare. Med talang och
finess.”
Alltså; en stark vilja att uträtta
väsentligheter till folks båtnad. Så
kunde han till exempel också glädja sig
åt att Malmö kallades Sveriges
tv-huvudstad på 1960-talet. Inte minst
bidrog talangupptäckt Lasse Holmqvist
som ankare i ”Bialitt”, onsdags- och
lördagssoffor och kanske framförallt
”Här är ditt liv”. Många andra skickliga
medarbetare, inte minst den fasta
personalen, bidrog stort till många
utmärkta program. Men Gunnar lär visst
aldrig ha varit en vanlig ”chef” utan
snarare en kolossalt duktig ledare av
idrottslig karaktär.
Jag har haft den stora förmånen att
känna denna ödmjuka medmänniska i precis
sextio år. Det var 1954 vi träffades av
en slump på Saxtorps motorbana utanför
Landskrona. Jag var sportchef på
Helsingborgs Dagblad i Helsingborg, det
var söndag. Jag kom sent efter att ha
bevakat en allsvensk match på Olympia
och det var omöjligt att hitta en kil i
det mångdubbla publikledet runt banan.
Jag fick se en lastbil och gick fram och
presenterade mig. ”Ja, men då är vi ju
kollegor! Jag heter Gunnar Ollén och ska
referera för Radiotjänst i Malmö.
Välkommen upp”, sade mannen med mikrofon
och räckte mig sin andra hand.
Där grundlades ett kamratskap som
utvecklades till varm vänskap då vi
under årens lopp kom att odla våra
gemensamma stora intressen: teaterkonst
och Strindberg. Gunnar med hustru var en
mycket flitig gäst på Malmö stadsteaters
fem salonger, då jag var press- och
reklamchef och han var en tid ordförande
i vår Strindbergförening i Lund.
Framförallt var han en intressant
föredragshållare.
Trots att Gunnar var en väluppfostrad
gosse från Djursholm och senare en
soignerad gentleman fjärran från
vulgaritet och ett sådant skrytuttalande
så kan jag inte låta bli att citera ett
brev från August Strindberg till
kollegan Edvard Brandes. Gunnar skulle
kunna ha sagt så med full evidens:
”Jag är en djefla man som kan göra många
konster.”
Sven Tollin
Länk:
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/familj/minnesord/gunnar-ollen/
Politikens behov av
hattar
Av Christian Dahlgren
Corren 14-08-08
Hemma i mitt bibliotek har en jag bok
med ett skojigt fotografi på Tage
Erlander och en ung Olof Palme. Det är
taget i England någon gång på
femtiotalet. Bägge dessa politiska
legendarer bär tidstypiska hattar.
Erlander en större, Palme en mindre. Det
tände moderatledaren Gösta Bohman på.
Bilden retade honom så kolossalt att den
fick pryda hans arbetsrum. Det var
Bohmans sätt att trigga igång sig själv
till att bli ännu vassare i sin kritik
mot arbetarrörelsens galjonsfigurer.
Tänk vad några huvudbonader kan göra.
[...]
Möjligen skulle politiken tjäna på om
hatten gjorde comeback. Inte enbart för
att skänka våra folkvalda ett större
mått av elegans och värdighet när de
lägger ut texten i debatten. Nej, jag
menar naturligtvis även rent
intellektuellt. Den självklara
slutsatsen har jag dragit efter studier
av exemplet August Strindberg.
Rutinmässigt tog vår synnerligen
produktive nationalförfattare en
promenad varje morgon i syfte att samla
inspiration. Strindberg var då noga med
att ständigt bära hatt. Annars riskerade
de geniala uppslagen att flyga sin kos,
trodde han. Strindbergs hatt var lika
snitsig som hög, tillräckligt stor för
att rymma massor av virvlande idéer som
han fångade med sig till skrivbordet.
Läs mer:
http://www.corren.se/asikter/ledare/politikens-behov-av-hattar-7200389.aspx
UK
Miss Julie
By Susan Lowes
All Edingburgh Theatre, August 13, 2014
✭✭✭✭✩ Enticing scandal
The Scottish Storytelling Centre (Venue
30)
Mon 11 – Sat 15 August 2014
In a new adaptation of August
Strindberg by Jen McGregor, Black Dingo
Productions return to the late 19th
Century with a story about class,
longing and scandal.
But McGregor ensures that it is a
not-too distant tale as it explores
themes of power, judgement and broken
dreams – all of which are still hugely
relevant in society today.
Miss Julie tells the tale of a Baron’s
daughter, a childish, impudent girl who
wants to rebel against the confinements
of her class, yet at the same time
cannot help but revelling in exerting
control over others. Julie could be any
girl in any time: she believes she wants
a different life and flirts on the
boundary between worlds.
In the kitchen of Miss Julie’s house she
throws herself upon the world of her
servants, John and Kristin. She leads
John, her father’s valet, into in a
reluctant encounter in which each is in
condemnation of the other, while both
longing for their opposite’s lifestyle.
This leads to a dangerous battle of
control and seduction, and director Amy
Gilmartin successfully delivers an hour
of gripping drama as the life-altering
events unfold.
Read more:
http://alledinburghtheatre.com/miss-julie-review-4-stars-edfringe/
New Zealand
Writer chooses
drama over drink
By Dionne Christian
New Zealand Herald, Friday Aug 8, 2014
Three years after she created her first
play, Jess Sayer decides the time is
right for it to be seen in a theatre
After her parents acrimoniously
divorced, scriptwriter Jess Sayer
thought there were two ways of coping.
"Some people turn to drugs or start
drinking, but I wrote a play, which I
suppose is a safer way of dealing with
it."
Sayer, who turns 24 on the opening night
of her drama Fix, had never read a play
and had seen only a handful performed.
They included an Auckland production of
August Strindberg's 1888 tragicomedy
Creditors, which inspired her to write
her own script.
After reading it to a friend, she was
persuaded to enter Playmarket's "b4 25"
playwriting competition and won the 2011
award.
Read more:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11305525
Malta
Theatre bonanza over two weekends
Malta International Theatre Festival
commemorates 20th Anniversary of Malta
Drama Centre
MaltaToday 7 August 2014
Local theatre and drama lovers are in
for a real treat. The last two weekends
of August will be seeing the first
edition of the Malta International
Theatre Festival organized by the Malta
Drama Centre in collaboration with the
Directorate of Lifelong learning and
Early School Leavers and the Ministry of
Finance and will feature two foreign
and five local theatre companies.
The Malta International Theatre Festival
which will be held between the 22nd and
31st of August at the Greek Theatre
within the precincts of Maria Regina
Girls’ Seconday in Blata l-Bajda, is
being launched to commemorate the 20th
Anniversary (1994-2014) since the
official establishment of the Malta
Drama Centre as the national performing
arts school under the Department of
Education. The Malta Drama Centre is
nowadays one of the centres under the
Directorate for Lifelong Learning and
Early School Leavers.
The aim of the Festival is to present,
by way of a variety of plays,
performances and subsequent critical
analyses, colloquies and workshops, a
global picture of the diverse trends in
theatre, and to encourage encounters
between theatre practitioners.
The first weekend of the festival
(between the 22nd and the 24th of
August) will include 4 different one act
plays, three of which from Malta and one
from the United Kingdom.
The three local productions are “The
Stronger” by August Strindberg produced
by TAC Theatre and directed by Marc
Cabourdain, “Għal Dejjem” by Claudio
Carta, a physical theatre performance
produced by Sense of Play and directed
and performed by Carta himself and
“Coco’s Fabulous Speed Dating Soiree”
written and directed by Vikesh Godhwani
and produced by Frolic Theatre. The
foreign production for the weekend will
be “Rumors of Innocence” produced by
British company Theatre Studio West and
written and directed by the
highly-acclaimed Julie Saunders.
Read more:
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/theatre_and_dance/42033/theatre_bonanza_over_two_weekends
Varje hörn har en
historia
Av Cecilia Uddenfeldt
Ystads Allehanda 28 juli 2014
Det är andra året den interaktiva
vandringsteatern ger nyfikna besökare en
historisk återblick i Ystad. Under
söndagen återuppstod bland andra August
Strindberg, Per Helsa Hansson och
Charlotte Berlin i stadens gränder.
Läs mer:
http://www.ystadsallehanda.se/ystad/article2208518/Varje-horn-har-en-historia.html
Gunnar Ollén
Av Paul-Christian Sjöberg
Sydsvenskan 26 juli 2014
Gunnar Ollén, Malmö, har avlidit i en
ålder av 100 år. Han sörjs närmast av
hustrun Kirsten, barnen Gunhild Ollén,
Lil Stanley, Theresa Benér, Joakim Ollén
och Peter Ollén samt åtta barnbarn och
sex barnbarnsbarn.
Minnets backspegel vidgar sig oavbrutet
till ett omfattande kalejdoskop av rik
blandning från svart till vitt och
allting däremellan! Kanske ett banalt
konstaterande? Men vid underrättelsen om
att Gunnar Ollén avlidit, vid 100 års
ålder, känner jag spontant en uppfordran
att i några minnesrader förmedla den
tacksamhet och glädje jag känner över
att ha fått lära känna och ha nöjet att
samarbeta med denne eminente
Strindbergsnestor. 1941 disputerade han
i Stockholm, för Martin Lamm, på en
förnämlig avhandling om Strindbergs
1900-talslyrik.
Mitt Strindbergsintresse väcktes redan
på gymnasiestadiet – ingenting ovanligt
– och har visat sig mycket slitstarkt!
1977 fick jag förtroendet att bli invald
i styrelsen för Strindbergsföreningen i
Lund som kassaförvaltare och fick därmed
också vara med om åtskilliga minnesvärda
stunder i föreningens arrangemang.
Gunnar Ollén, som under många år var
hedersledamot, var med sin hustru
Kirsten nästan alltid närvarande på
mötena och bidrog vid så gott som varje
sammankomst med tungt vägande och
högintressanta inlägg under
efterföljande diskussion vid kaffet
efter supén.
Bland det mest fängslande som deltagarna
fick uppleva var när Gunnar Ollén, med
den kriminaltekniska rotelns
chefsfotograf i Malmö Rudolf Rosengren,
återställde Strindbergs manuskript
”Fröken Julie” till originalversionen,
som av dåtidens oskarianska
sedlighetstryck och av förläggarens
åtalsängslan grundligt purifierats.
Gunnar Ollén har själv berättat om detta
i den bok som kom ut till hans
90-årsdag, ”Forskarliv – sex decennier
med Strindberg” (2003).
En dag i början av 1990-talet ringde
Gunnar Ollén mig och frågade om jag
ville hjälpa honom med några problem
rörande musik i Strindbergs text. Jag
blev både glad och tacksam och svarade
givetvis genast ja. Följden blev att jag
anlitades i ett cirka dussintal fall
rörande musikfrågor i några
Strindbergsverk, något som både var
lärorikt och intressant. Gunnar Ollén
var älskvärdheten och tacksamheten
själv, han skickade mig inte mindre än
tolv band av den nya Strindbergsutgåvan
med varma tack för god hjälp som tack,
någon ersättning hade jag givetvis inte
gjort anspråk på. Jag uppfattade mitt
arbete som ett hedersuppdrag!
Länk:
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/familj/gunnar-ollen/
Italia
Il matrimonio di
Strindberg secondo le idee di Ronconi
Stasera a Mittelfest va in scena “Danza
macabra”, protagonista Adriana Asti con
il marito Giorgio Ferrara, nel nuovo
allestimento del Festival di Spoleto
Di Roberto Canziani
Il Piccolo 26 luglio 2014
CIVIDALE. A sostenere che le donne sono
creature del diavolo c'è una lunga e
antica tradizione. Oggi possiamo
considerarla comica, un motivo tipico,
che ricorre in canzoni, detti e proverbi
popolari. Una ragione di sorriso, se non
fosse che in altri secoli ha segnato
irrevocabilmente il ruolo e il destino
di metà della popolazione della pianeta.
Quel legame diabolico, l'idea di una
creatura vampiro che logora, svuota e
annienta spiritualmente il maschio, è
però qualcosa che diventa ossessione,
mania e persecuzione nella mente di
August Strindberg, lo scrittore svedese
vissuto a cavallo tra 800 e 900.
L'aggettivo che più spesso accompagna il
nome del drammaturgo di Stoccolma è
“misogino”. Se non vuol dire che le
odiava proprio, le donne, la parola sta
sicuramente a significare un rapporto
assai tormentato con l'altro sesso. Non
basta la raccolta di novelle “Sposarsi”,
con i puntigliosi attacchi al genere
femminile e al matrimonio. Non basta il
volume che fin dal titolo espone netta
la sua opinione: “L'inferiorità
spirituale della donna rispetto
all'uomo”. E non è ancora sufficiente la
trama di quel suo dramma in cui una
moglie manda ai pazzi il marito,
insistendo nel suggerire a mezza voce
che non è lui il padre della loro
figlia. Bisogna proprio dare un'occhiata
ai tormentatissimi rapporti che
Strindberg ebbe con le quattro donne
della sua vita per capire perché mai
anche lui - come “Il Padre” del dramma
omonimo – sia finito col diventare
pazzo, perso tra di studi di alchimia e
occultismo, lo sguardo opaco e
allucinato dei visionari folli.
Leggete il sito:
http://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/tempo-libero/2014/07/26/news/il-matrimonio-di-strindberg-secondo-le-idee-di-ronconi-1.9663508
USA, New York
(NY)
Dominique Morisseau,
David Bar Katz and More to Star in
SATC's BASTARDS OF STRINDBERG, 9/2-2
BroadwayWorld, Off-Broadway July 25 2014
Scandinavian American Theater Company
(SATC) will present the World Premiere
of BASTARDS OF STRINDBERG. This evening
of short works inspired by Strindberg's
iconic Miss Julie is written by four
exciting contemporary playwrights:
Dominique Morisseau (Detroit '67), David
Bar Katz (Tony nominee for Freak),
Andreas Boonstra (winner of Sweden's
Thaliapriset award) and Lina Ekdahl
(winner of Sweden's Werner Aspenström
Award). Directed by Henning Hegland and
Alicia Dhyan House, previews begin
September 2 at Off-Broadway's The Lion
Theater at Theatre Row. Opening night is
set for September 5.
With BASTARDS OF STRINDBERG, the class
and gender struggles Strindberg grappled
with in Miss Julie find their relevancy
today in an evening of four contemporary
works. These stylistically different
pieces are woven together through live
music, dance, and the magic of a Swedish
midsummer. Over 125 years later, will
Miss Julie finally break free?
BASTARDS OF STRINDBERG includes:
• "High Powered" by Dominique
Morrisseau: Two lovers, both Miss
Julie's servants, confront the cost of
ambition in a world that wants to keep
them down.
•"Chanting Hymns To Fruitless Moons" by
David Bar Katz: Interwoven with Norse
mythology and hot-blooded lust, Old
Julie sets the record straight.
• "Midsummer at Tyrolen" by Lina Ekdahl:
Three restless souls, Jean, Julie, and
Kristin, meet in a run down restaurant
in the middle of nowhere. Together they
decide which path to take in life.
• "Truth about Fröken Julie" by Andreas
Boonstra: Strindberg's characters
comically deconstruct their own play and
commence to write their own script,
taking control of their destiny.
Read more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Dominique-Morisseau-David-Bar-Katz-and-More-to-Star-in-SATCs-BASTARDS-OF-STRINDBERG-92-21-20140725#.U_T39kiZ3yw
España
Dirigida por Liv Ullman
Jessica Chastain y
Colin Farrell protagonizan el primer
tráiler de 'Miss Julie'
De Ignacio Montalvo
Fotogramas 25-07-2014
Liv Ullman dirige esta nueva adaptación
del clásico teatral de August Strindberg
que narra la historia de la hija de un
rico terrateniente que seduce a su
criado durante la noche de San Juan
Jessica Chastain y Colin Farrell suben
la temperatura en el primer tráiler de
'Miss Julie', adaptación del clásico
teatral de August Strindberg que dirige
la noruega Liv Ullman.
En una calurosa tarde de verano, Julie
(Jessica Chastain) se encuentra sola con
los criados y deprimida tras la ruptura
de su compromiso matrimonial. Cuando se
quede a solas con John (Colin Farrell),
el lacayo de su padre, éste la seducirá,
para después humillarla y llevarla a la
autodestrucción. Samantha Morton
('Minority Report') completa el
triángulo interpretando a Kathleen, la
cocinera.
'Miss Julie' (en sueco; Fröken Julie) es
una obra de teatro realista escrita en
1888 por August Strindberg, que trata
las clases sociales, el amor, lujuria y
la batalla de los sexos.
La película se estrenará el próximo mes
de septiembre en el Festival
Internacional de Toronto.
Link:
http://www.fotogramas.es/Noticias-cine/Jessica-Chastain-y-Colin-Farrell-protagonizan-el-primer-trailer-de-Miss-Julie
tambíen:
http://www.vavel.com/es/cine/373195-trailer-de-miss-julie-con-jessica-chastain-y-colin-farrell.html
Ireland
World Premiere of
‘Miss Julie’ at Toronto International
Film Festival
By Deirdre Molumby
IFTN 25 Jul 2014
‘Miss Julie’ makes its World Premiere at
this year's Toronto International Film
Festival (TIFF) which runs from 4th to
14th September. Toronto is on a par with
other premiere world film festivals such
as Cannes, Venice and Berlin. The
festival has a highly competitive
selection process and is considered a
great launch pad for the North American
market.
Filmed entirely on location at Castle
Coole, Co. Fermanagh ‘Miss Julie’ is the
latest film adaptation based on the play
of the same name by Swedish playwright
August Strindberg. The film received
funding from the Northern Ireland Screen
Fund supported by Invest NI and part
funded by the European Regional
Development Fund.
‘Miss Julie’ stars Jessica Chastain
(‘Zero Dark Thirty’; ‘Lawless’; ‘The
Help’), Dubliner Colin Farrell (‘Seven
Psychopaths’; ‘Saving Mr Banks’; ‘In
Bruges’), and Samantha Morton
(‘Cosmopolis’; ‘John Carter’;
‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age’) and is
directed by Liv Ullman.
Read more:
http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4287410&tpl=archnews&force=1
UK
Double the challenge for Rosalie
Chichester Observer 25 July 2014
Rehearsing a double bill has been the
most interesting and challenging of
experiences, says Rosalie Craig.
Rosalie plays the title role in
Strindberg’s Miss Julie and then, after
the interval, returns as Clea in
Shaffer’s Black Comedy which closes the
evening.
“I have never done anything like this
before, but it is going really well,”
Rosalie says. “One day we were
rehearsing one play all the way through,
and then the next day it might be half a
day on one play and then half a day on
the other. You just have to get the one
out of your head when you are doing the
other. But I am sure one day I was
performing Black Comedy as if I was
still in the Strindberg!”
On another occasion, during a break in
Black Comedy rehearsals, she wondered
whether she should have a quick look at
her Miss Julie script – before telling
herself definitely ‘No!’
But the results will be worth it. As she
says, Miss Julie is a fascinating play –
and one where it is easy to forget now
just how shocking it must have been in
its day.
Miss Julie is set during the tumultuous
hours following a Midsummer Night’s Eve
ball. Miss Julie and her father’s
handsome valet Jean play provocative and
dangerous status games in Strindberg’s
exploration of sex, class and power.
Read more:
http://www.chichester.co.uk/what-s-on/entertainment/double-the-challenge-for-rosalie-1-6201296
USA, Minneapolis (MN)
9 questions with
Peter Beard, American Swedish
Institute's artist-in-residence
By Chris Hewitt
TwinCities 07/24/2014
You could say Peter Beard's stint as
artist-in-residence at American Swedish
Institute began with Swedish meatballs.
Beard, 27, peddled meatballs and other
acclaimed Scandi-treats at Fika, the
cafe at the institute. His boss at Fika,
Brie Roland, suggested it would be a
cool idea for Beard -- who also is an
actor and co-artistic director of
Theatre Coup D'Etat -- to produce the
Denmark-set "Hamlet" in the stately
Minneapolis mansion that houses ASI.
"I took a look at the ballroom and the
possibilities were endless there,"
recalls Beard. "So we kind of forced our
way in there, did 'Hamlet' and ending up
winning an Ivey Award for it."
Since that May 2013 production, Coup
D'Etat has staged a couple of other
shows at ASI, and Beard has had
conversations with ASI's Scott Pollock
about incorporating performances into
the institute's activities. From those
conversations, Beard's residency was
born, focusing on the work of Swedish
playwright/head case August Strindberg,
whose most famous play is "Miss Julie."
A month of programs concludes Wednesday
at ASI with the final event of Beard's
residency. (ASI's exhibit "The Image of
Strindberg" runs through October.)
Read more:
http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_26208948/9-questions-peter-beard-american-swedish-institutes-artist?source=rss
Trailer for "Miss
Julie," with Colin Farrell and Jessica
Chastain
WorstPreviews.com July 23rd, 2014
Today we have the first trailer for the
upcoming "Miss Julie" drama, which is
based on a play by August Strindberg and
stars Colin Farrell and Jessica
Chastain. Check it out below.
Plot: The story is set in 1874 on a
country estate in Ireland and over the
course of one midsummer night, Miss
Julie explores the brutal, power
struggle between a young aristocratic
woman (Chastain) and her father's valet
(Farrell).
The new movie is directed by Liv Ullman
and is set to premiere at the Toronto
Film Festival.
Link:
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=31590
Also:
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/jessica-chastain-seduces-colin-farrell-in-miss-julie-trailer-50131058.php
&
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-new-international-trailer-for-miss-julie-starring-jessica-chastain-colin-farrell-20140808
&
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/tvshowbiz/video-1107092/Miss-Julie-international-trailer-starring-Jessica-Chastain.html
USA
FIRST LOOK: Toronto
Best Actress Candidate Jessica Chastain
Stars in Liv Ullmann's 'Miss Julie'
(TRAILER)
By Anne Thompson
IndieWire, juli 22, 2014
Now that the dust is settling around the
recent flurry of fall film festival
announcements, one promising entry is a
Toronto world premiere:
Norwegian actress-writer-director Liv
Ullmann's adaptation of Swedish
playwright August Strindberg’s 1888
classic "Miss Julie." The film starring
Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"),
Colin Farrell ("Saving Mr. Banks") and
Samantha Morton ("A.I.") seeks a North
American distributor. Whether it would
make it into this year's Oscar race
depends on how it plays in Toronto.
French international sales agency Wild
Bunch is handling sales.
Chastain has been in-demand, earning
back-to-back Oscar nominations for
supporting actress for "The Help" in
2012 and Best Actress in Kathryn
Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" in 2013.
The Weinstein Company plans an awards
push for the single-film version of "The
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" which
debuted as two films in Toronto last
year. Coming November 7 is Christopher
Nolan's "Interstellar." A24 will open
J.C. Chandor's "A Most Violent Year" on
November 14. Still to come in 2015 are
Guillermo del Toro's "Crimson Peak" and
the role of Marilyn Monroe in andre
Domicic's "Blonde," which is in
pre-production.
Read more:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/first-look-toronto-best-actress-candidate-jessica-chastain-stars-in-liv-ullmanns-miss-julie-trailer-20140722
España
Tráiler de 'Miss
Julie', con Colin Farrell y Jessica
Chastain
De Santiago Gimeno ▪ miércoles, 23 de
julio de 2014
Con motivo de su inminente exhibición en
el Festival de CIne de Toronto, que se
celebra del 23 al 29 de julio, por fin
podemos enseñarte el primer tráiler de
Miss Julie. El drama, basado en la
popular obra de teatro La señorita Julia
del dramaturgo sueco August Strindberg,
está protagonizado por el ganador del
Globo de Oro Colin Farrell y por la dos
veces nominada al Oscar Jessica
Chastain.
La historia de Miss Julie está
ambientada a finales del siglo XIX,
concretamente en 1874, en un pequeño
pueblo de Irlanda durante una noche de
verano. La cinta, dirigida por Liv
Ullman (Sonata de otoño, Persona, La
vergüenza), explora la brutal lucha de
poder entre una joven aristócrata
(Jessica Chastain) y el mayordomo de su
padre (Colin Farrell). ¿Qué hará
Chastain con la tercera gran infiel de
la Literatura universal después de Anna
Karenina y Emma Bovary? ¡Compruébalo en
el siguiente tráiler!
Leer:
http://www.sensacine.com/noticias/cine/noticia-18520465/
Argentina
TEATRO PAYRO
'El Pelícano' de August
Strindberg
Gente BA, Miércoles, 23 Julio 2014
"Estas cosas pasan en todas las
familias. Lo importante es que no se
note". Una familia atrapada en una casa,
llena de recuerdos, torturas, mentiras y
abusos. Un padre muerto y una supuesta
herencia por cobrar, pondrán en
evidencia la ambición desmedida de
alguno de los sobrevivientes de esta
familia a la merced de sus propios
intereses.
Una carta aparecerá en el momento justo
para develar la verdad y poner en marcha
la venganza.
August Strindberg escribió esta inmensa
obra en 1907 sobre los vínculos
familiares. La esquizofrenia tiñe su
obra de apariciones fantasmales del
pasado que enloquecen a los culpables.
Leer más:
http://www.genteba.com.ar/index.php/espectaculos/item/70699-el-pel%C3%ADcano-de-august-strindberg
USA
5 Uncomfortable
Truths About Your Life
By Rabbi Evan Moffic
Huffington Post 2014-07-21
My congregation has nicknamed me the
"smiling rabbi." I was lucky to be born
with a happy disposition.
Yet, we all know life is never perfect.
Authentic happiness demands we also
grapple with the unhappy parts of our
character. Perfection, as Jewish wisdom
teaches us, is reserved for God.
How To Grapple With Them
I have found that great theater is one
of the best ways to grapple with these
uncomfortable parts of ourselves. When
we do so honestly, we can grow into more
loving, wiser human beings. But it can
be very hard.
This truth hit home for me last week
when I saw the play The Dance of Death.
Written in 1900 by Swedish playwright
August Strindberg, it tells the story of
a bleak and spite-filled marriage.
Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-evan-moffic/5-uncomfortable-truths-ab_b_5607104.html
Nigeria
Promoting Cultural
Diplomacy And Peaceful Co-existence Via
Literature
CHINELO CHIKELU, Onukogu Kanayo Jubal,
UGOCHUKWU IROKA
Leadership, Jul 18, 2014
Interview with Sweden’s Ambassador
Svante Kilander, as it hosts its first
Nigerian theatre production of Swedish
playwright August Strindberg’s Dance of
Death 1, Kilander spoke to Books &Art of
the country’s dedication to the
promotion and exchange of culture via
literature.
How did you get to host this production
at the embassy?
I have known Jerry (the producer) for a
couple of years and we have been
discussing if it could be possible to
cooperate on something like this and (a
lot of furniture that we have moved
around and it turned out to be a
convenient stage) the embassy itself
that triggered the idea to do this. We
discussed which play would be the better
suited to the make-shift stage that
wouldn’t include too many actors and
decided on the Dance of Death 1.
Read more:
http://leadership.ng/entertainment/arts/378161/promoting-cultural-diplomacy-peaceful-co-existence-via-literature
USA, Minneapolis (MN)
American Swedish Institute offers
Scandinavian sampler
The American Swedish Institute showcases
Swedish photos, Norwegian sculpture and
Finnish rugs this summer.
By: Mary Abbe
Star Tribune July 17, 2014
With a sample of Swedish photos, Finnish
rugs and Norwegian sculpture, the
American Swedish Institute, ASI, is
offering a light smorgasbord of Nordic
culture this summer. While varied in
size and scope, each show offers a bit
of insight into the history, temperament
and traditions of its country of origin.
Swedish photos
More than a century after his death,
Swedish playwright August Strindberg
(1849-1912) remains a controversial
figure in the homeland he pilloried as
pietistic, repressive and hypocritical.
Considered the founder of modern Swedish
literature, he also produced expressive
paintings and experimented with
photography. Always conscious of his
image, he took many self-portraits, of
which 19 are featured in modern
enlargements. They loosely track his
life from student days through his
writing and theater career, three
marriages, sojourns in Berlin and
Switzerland, and return to Sweden.
Read more:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/267538531.html
Tv-pionjären
Gunnar Ollén död
Av Birgitta Johansson
Helsingborgs Dagblad 16 juli 2014
Förre radio- och tv-chefen Gunnar Ollén
har avlidit 100 år gammal, skriver
Sydsvenskan. Det var han som startade
Sydnytt, Sveriges första regionala
nyhetsprogram. 1950-1979 var han chef
för Sveriges radio i Malmö, där
tv-mediet ingick från 1958. Idén om
regionala nyhetssändningar i tv mötte
motstånd hos ledningen i Stockholm, men
Gunnar Ollén kunde till genomföra
planerna. Och Sydnytt kom att få stor
betydelse för utvecklingen av regionala
nyhetsprogram i hela landet. Sydnytt
startade 1970.
Malmö-tv under Olléns ledning gjorde på
60-talet program som "Fråga Lund",
"Musikfrågan" och "Bialitt" (som hämtade
sitt namn från Bialitt i Svalövs
kommun).
Gunnar Ollén var också
litteraturforskare med August Strindberg
som specialitet. På 1930-talet var han
kapten för bordtennislaget och deltog i
tre bordtennis-VM. Han var bosatt i
Malmö.
Länk:
https://hd.se/familj/2014/07/16/tv-pionjaren-gunnar-ollen-dod/
Tv-pionjären Gunnar Ollén är död – blev
100
Sveriges television Malmös mångårige
chef Gunnar Ollén avled på
måndagskvällen.
Gunnar blev 100 år gammal.
Av Ulf R. Johansson
Kvällsposten 15 jul 2014
Gunnar Ollén lämnar en enastående
livsgärning, på minst fyra plan. Och han
bröt ny mark inom samtliga.
Ollén var radio/tv-pionjären i Malmö,
han var Strindberg-kännaren, han var den
eminente Thalia-ordföranden här i
Kvällsposten - och han var den
banbrytande idrottsvännen (pingis).
Sveriges radios, och så småningom SVT:s
framväxt som viktig medieaktör i södra
Sverige var i hög grad Gunnar Olléns
verk. Nej, inte "i hög grad" - den VAR
helt och hållet hans verk. Han kom 1950
från Stockholm till Malmö, på Hjalmar
Gullbergs rekommendation, för att
efterträda radiopionjären Adolf
Anderberg – Djurholmsfödde Ollén
längtade hit, säger han i en liten
skrift om sin tid som ledare inom
etermedia. Radion expanderade under hans
år som chef - han var till en början
helt solo - och med lock och pock, och
med god hjälp av de danska kollegerna
inom fjernsynet, kom också tv-mediet i
fokus på allvar på 50-talet.
Läs mer:
http://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/tv-pionjaren-gunnar-ollen-ar-dod--blev-100/
Gunnar Ollén – hundraåringen som
öppnade tv-fönstret
Av Ulf Clarén
Sydsvenskan 15 juli 2014
Dödsfall. Svensk televisions verklige
pionjär har avlidit. Den förre radio-
och tv-chefen Gunnar Ollén dog 100 år
gammal på ett vårdhem i Malmö i närvaro
av sin familj.
Gunnar Olléns betydelse för svensk
television går inte att överskatta. Det
var han som var den drivande kraften när
tv-sändningarna i Sverige för mer än
femtio år sedan tog sina första
stapplande steg och gav skåningarna tv
före resten av landet. Det var hans kupp
mot tv-chefen i Stockholm som såg till
att Skåne fick landets första regionala
tv-nyheter. Det var Gunnar Olléns kamp
mot stockholmsk stelbenthet som gjorde
att Malmö-tv under många år låg i
framkant.
På 1930-talet var Gunnar Ollén kapten
för bordtennislandslaget och när Sven
Jerring uppmanade honom att kommentera
sporten för radio startade en lång
karriär i etern.
[...]
Gunnar Ollén hade många talanger. Han
doktorerade på och skrev flera böcker om
August Strindberg och i nitton år var
han engagerad i utgivandet av
nationalupplagan av Strindbergs samlade
verk.
Läs mer:
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/familj/dodsfall/gunnar-ollen-har-avlidit/
Den förre radio- och TV-chefen i
Malmö, Gunnar Ollén har avlidit. Han
blev 100 år gammal.
Av Sylwia Jaworska
SvT 15 juli 2014
Han var pionjären som startade Sveriges
första regionala nyhetsprogram i TV,
Sydnytt. Det gjorde han mot högste
radiochefens vilja, i en skrubb, och det
blev en murbräcka för all regional
nyhetsbevakning, hävdar medieforskare.
Gunnar Ollén var också
litteraturforskare och har skrivit om
Strindbergs liv.
Han avled sent i gårkväll med familjen
närvarande.
Länk:
http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/sydnytt/gunnar-ollen-har-avlidit
Iran
Art news in brief
Strindberg’s “The Father”
welcomed in Iran
Tehran Times 14 July 2014 15:01
TEHRAN – The second edition of a Persian
translation of “The Father” written by
Swedish playwright and author August
Strindberg has been published in Iran.
The play is about Captain Adolph, an
officer in the calvary, and his wife,
Laura, who have a disagreement regarding
the education of their daughter, Bertha.
Translated by Javad Atefeh into Persian,
the book was which was released by Afraz
Publications.
Link:
http://tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/117015-art-news-in-brief
Hon
skapade en rysk vår i Sverige
Under 1880-talet
inträffade en märklig korsbefruktning
mellan rysk och svensk kultur. Den
samhällskritiska 1860-talslitteraturen
och den ryska radikalismen överfördes nu
på allvar till svenskan. I centrum för
hela processen stod Sofja Kovalevskaja.
Av Magnus Ljunggren
SvD 14 juli 2014
I november 1883 hade Sofja Kovalevskaja
(Sonja Kovalevsky) kommit till
Stockholm, en briljant ung matematiker
som på grund av sitt kön rönt motstånd
på ryska och europeiska universitet.
Hennes frisinnade kollega Gösta
Mittag-Leffler hade i en unik gest
bjudit in henne till Stockholms
högskola, grundad några år tidigare i
uttalat liberal anda, med honom själv
som rektor. Här gavs hon möjligheter att
både föreläsa och forska – så småningom
också att utveckla ett skönlitterärt
författarskap. Hon blev kvar i Sverige
resten av sitt korta liv.
Om sina första intryck berättar
Kovalevskaja i ett märkligt brev från
december 1883 till den ryske
matematikern, publicisten och
teatermannen Sergej Jurjev, redaktör för
tidskriften Russkaja mysl. I honom hade
hon en frände som liksom hon själv
överbryggade klyftan mellan
naturvetenskap och humaniora.
Kovalevskaja konstaterar inledningsvis
att hon tagits emot väl i Stockholm. Hon
börjar redan inhämta språket. Men i
Uppsala har hon ”ovänner” – antagonismen
mellan de båda lärosätena är kolossal.
Det försiggår, betonar hon, en
uppgörelse i hela det svenska samhället
mellan gammalt och nytt. En ny syn på
sociala orättvisor, på ojämlikheten
mellan könen, på en stelnad teologi
bryter fram. Det gäller särskilt i
litteraturen som kan påminna om den
ryska ”15 år tillbaka i tiden”. Det är
slående att hon genast varseblivit
parallellerna mellan det revolutionära
ryska 60-tal som format henne och den
begynnande svenska åttitalismen.
Hon uttrycker sin beundran för den i
Ryssland vid denna tid fullständigt
okände, ”extremt begåvade” August
Strindberg, vars rabulism gjort honom
till ”fågelskrämma” och ”syndabock” i
den uppskrämda borgerlighetens ögon. Det
är alltså den Strindberg som i kretsen
av ”Det unga Sverige” vid denna tid
alltmer kommit att rikta blickarna mot
den ryska ”nihilismen”. 1881 skrev han
till Edvard Brandes: ”Nihilisterna äro
mitt folk! Jag måste tala vid dem!” Året
efter publicerade han sin vassa
samhällssatir i ”Det nya riket”, snart
skulle han ställa till med skandal och
process med ”Giftas”-novellerna.
Ytterligare något senare tog han
personlig kontakt med ryska anarkister i
Schweiz.
Läs mer:
http://www.svd.se/kultur/understrecket/hon-skapade-en-rysk-var-i-sverige_3740620.svd
UK
Blog
Review: August
Strindberg’s Miss Julie and Peter
Shaffer’s Black Comedy, Minerva theatre,
Chichester
By Poly Gianniba
TheOtherBridgeProject, July 13, 2014
It’s well-known Black Comedy starts in
complete darkness but in the double bill
at the Minerva theatre in Chichester, so
does August Strindberg‘s Miss Julie. A
couple of seconds of pitch black until a
match strikes and an oil lamp is lit.
The Minerva stage has been transformed
to an airy and welcoming kitchen of a
19th century mansion. Despite the oil
lamp and other equipment, the set wears
its period elements lightly. Squint a
little and you could be in a modern – if
rustic – house. Contemporary echoes run
through the whole of the production, a
lot of them due to the new adaptation by
Rebecca Lenkiewicz. If that weakens the
social focus of the story, it brings
other pleasures.
Read more:
http://theotherbridgeproject.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/review-august-strindbergs-miss-julie-and-peter-shaffers-black-comedy-minerva-theatre-chichester/
UK
Miss Julie / Black
Comedy, Minerva Theatre Chichester,
review: 'inspired'
You'd need to be feeling very churlish
indeed not to be satisfied by this
double bill, says Charles Spencer
4 out of 5 stars
By Charles Spencer
The Telegraph 11 Jul 2014
This inspired coupling of Strindberg’s
dark study of sex across the class
divide and Peter Shaffer’s brilliant
one-act farce was first staged at
Chichester back in 1965. In Jamie
Glover’s revival, it still feels like a
superbly daring exercise in the
incongruous.
Miss Julie is a play that drags its
characters into a vortex of lust and
shame. In contrast, Black Comedy is a
work that leaves you physically helpless
with laughter. You would need to be
feeling very churlish indeed to leave
the theatre complaining that you hadn’t
got your money’s worth.
It is the critic’s curse to see some
plays too often, and watching Miss Julie
for the umpteenth time I felt it had
begun to pall for me.
Read more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10961869/Miss-Julie-Black-Comedy-Minerva-Theatre-Chichester-review-inspired.html
UK
Miss Julie/Black Comedy
review – sprightly Strindberg, sublime
Shaffer
Minerva theatre, Chichester
Strindberg's Miss Julie is well
directed, but it's Shaffer's dark comedy
that illuminates in this contrasting
double bill
4 out of 5
By Michael Billington
The Guardian, Friday 11 July 2014
August Strindberg's tragedy Miss Julie
and Peter Shaffer's farce Black Comedy
were somewhat arbitrarily yoked together
in a Chichester double bill in 1965. Now
they've been reunited in a cross-cast
Jamie Glover production and, as happened
nearly half a century ago, it is
Shaffer's play that induces the kind of
ecstasy we all look for in theatre.
Read more:
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/11/miss-julie-black-comedy-review-strindberg-shaffer-sublime
UK
An entertaining
odd couple: PATRICK MARMION reviews Miss
Julie/Black Comedy
By Patrick Marmion
Daily Mail 10 July 2014
Miss Julie/Black Comedy (Minerva
Theatre, Chichester)
Verdict: Triumphant pairing
Rating: 4 Star Rating
Here are two plays that belong together
like Boadicea and Mr Bean.
The first is Strindberg’s bleak Swedish
parable of the sex war, the second is
Peter Shaffer’s Sixties farce about a
nervous artist meeting his prospective
colonel father-in-law during a power cut
at his South Kensington garret.
Were it not that Laurence Olivier and
theatre critic Kenneth Tynan coupled
them together 50 years ago, for the
National Theatre in Chichester, you’d
dismiss the idea as a prank.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2688227/An-entertaining-odd-couple-PATRICK-MARMION-reviews-Miss-Julie-Black-Comedy.html
Deutschland
Damals und nicht
heute
Die Überlinger
Sommertheater-Inszenierung von August
Strindbergs „Fräulein Julie“ kennt keine
Gegenwart
von Maria Schorpp
Süedkurier 08.07.2014
Wie heißt das so schön in der
Floskelsprache: Sie könnten
unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Wenn das
Fräulein Julie den Diener Jean umtänzelt
und dabei tief blicken lässt, ist dieser
sehr ernst und führt ihr die letzten
Konsequenzen ihres Tuns vor Augen: die
Leute. Die Leute werden nicht glauben,
dass sie freiwillig zu ihm
hinabgestiegen ist, sie werden glauben,
sie sei gefallen. Wenn André Rohde das
sagt auf der Sommertheater-Bühne in
Überlingen, dann klingt er wie ein
besorgter Bruder. Da gibt es keine
Begierde, keine Lust. Er hat Angst um
sie, das kommt der Liebe nahe.
Aber das versteht die Julie von Alissa
Snagowski in diesem Moment nicht mit
ihrem ahnungslos eitlen Ehrgeiz, mal
ganz was Tolldreistes zu unternehmen.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.suedkurier.de/nachrichten/kultur/themensk/Damals-und-nicht-heute;art410935,7076374
UK
About Miss Julie
(King's Head)
Suzanne Shaw stars in this new
adaptation of Strindberg's classic
By Vicky Ellis
What'sOnStage, 7 Jul 2014 • London,
Off-West End
The knives are out - quite literally -
in this languid adaptation of
Strindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie.
Chefs' knives dangle around a naked
light bulb in the otherwise realistic
and sparse 'downstairs' kitchen, scene
of an afterparty not normally shared
with the servants.
But it's a dangerously flirtatious
afterparty for two - Julie and her
father's butler John.
Instead of a 19th century Swedish battle
of the sexes, About Miss Julie is set in
the fallout of World War One and
(limited) votes granted for women.
Against this both lovers' prejudices are
shown up by the moral axis of the play,
maid Christine.
Read more:
http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/07-2014/about-miss-julie-suzanne-shaw_34972.html
UK
Actor Shaun Evans -
currently starring as young Inspector
Morse in ITV's Endeavour - is confirmed
to appear in the Miss Julie/Black Comedy
double bill at the Minerva Theatre,
Chichester during Festival 2014.
BradwayWorld, West End
July 4 2014
Evans will play Jean in Rebecca
Lenkiewicz's new version of Miss Julie,
August Strindberg's exploration of sex,
class and power. He will also play
Harold Gorringe in Peter Shaffer's
delightful farce, Black Comedy.
In addition to his role as the iconic
television detective, Evans' credits
include the West End production of Kurt
and Sid and Blue/Orange (UK tour). Other
screen credits include Wreckers, Silk,
The Last Weekend and Teachers.
He joins Rosalie Craig (recently
nominated for a 2014 Olivier Award), who
plays the title role in Miss Julie and
Clea in Black Comedy, and Marcia Warren,
Miss Furnival in Black Comedy, whose
credits include the West End production
of The Ladykillers and ITV's Edge of
Heaven.
Miss Julie/Black Comedy will be at the
Minerva Theatre, Chichester from 4 July
- 9 August. For further information
visit cft.org.uk or contact the Box
Office on 01243 781312.
Link:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Shaun-Evans-to-Star-in-MISS-JULIE-and-BLACK-COMEDY-at-Chichester-from-July-4-20140703#.U-plMkiZ3yx
”Järntronen är en farlig plats”
SvD 5 juli 2014
Av Torbjörn Forslid
Läsförmågan sjunker och svenskar läser
allt mindre – även våra politiker. SvD
Kultur har inför höstens val därför bett
några skribenter ta fram lite nyttig
läsning för våra folkvalda. Först ut är
Torbjörn Forslid, som tipsar om såväl
klassiker som populärlitteratur.
Den politiker som har ambition att
fungera som ett föredöme i samhället bör
förutom kunskap och kompetens besitta
ett visst mått av bildning. Frågan är
dock vad detta innebär i vår tid? Redan
när bildningstanken etablerades i
Tyskland kring sekelskiftet 1800 fanns
det en dubbelhet i begreppet. Å ena
sidan skulle den bildade människan ha
kännedom om traditionen och den
klassiska litteraturen. Å andra sidan
handlade det om en fri kunskapsresa, där
individen utvecklade sin inneboende
potential.
Samhällets snabba omvandling de senaste
decennierna – globaliseringen,
digitaliseringen, medialiseringen – har
inte minst aktualiserat den senare
aspekten, den fria kunskapsresan.
Bildning i dag kan inte var detsamma som
för 50 eller 100 år sedan. Förutom
kunskap om traditionen kräver vårt
samhälle en mer gränsöverskridande
handlings- och tolkningskompetens. Inom
litteraturen kan det handla om att ta
till sig texter från tidigare
marginaliserade kulturer eller genrer.
Litterär bildning i dag inbegriper inte
endast Kafka och Woolf utan även
centrala samtida fiktiva gestalter som
Harry Potter och Lisbeth Salander. I
skönlitteraturen lär vi oss om människan
och det mänskliga. Det gäller för den
kanoniska litteraturen såväl som för
populärlitteraturen.
Här har jag valt två lämpliga
sommartitlar för våra politiker, den ena
från klassikersidan, den andra från
populärlitteraturen. Som genomgående
tema fungerar maktkampen, en problematik
jag föreställer mig att många politiker
har en nära relation till.
Hos Strindberg är kampen alltid central.
Den kan vara uttalat politisk och slå
mot det borgerliga etablissemanget
Läs mer:
http://www.svd.se/kultur/lastips-till-politiker-jarntronen-ar-en-farlig-plats_3718722.svd
Venezuela
La fuerza del teatro de Strindberg llega
a Margarita
La instalación performativa y plástica
dirigida por Costa Palamides, se
presenta por primera vez en Venezuela
este sábado 5 de julio a las 7:00 pm.
El Universal jueves 3 de julio de 2014
"Strindberg dúo tropical", instalación
performativa y plástica dirigida por
Costa Palamides, se presenta por primera
vez en Venezuela este sábado 5 de julio
a las 7:00 pm en el Museo Francisco
Narváez de Porlamar, Margarita, con las
actuaciones de Jazmín Castro y Ludwig
Pineda.
Esta propuesta artística se estrenó en
Berlin en el 2013 con una función
adicional en Hamburgo bajo los auspicios
de la Embajada de Venezuela en Alemania
y esta función será su estreno en
Venezuela. El montaje es un collage
teatral sobre la lucha de los sexos en
tres obras del genial dramaturgo sueco,
llevadas a la idiosincrasia caribeña con
elementos de la tradición cultural
venezolana.
Es una performance pictórica, muy
cercano a una "instalación" actoral en
una fusión con grandes diálogos de "El
Padre", "Camaradas" y "Acreedores" ,
importantes obras del polifacético
nórdico August Strindberg. La obra rinde
un homenaje intrínseco a grandes íconos
de la cultura venezolana y caribeña, en
un marco temporal que va desde
principios finales del siglo XIX, años
60 y un extraño ahora.
La pieza busca relacionar el hecho
plástico vivo con los espectadores de
los museos en una búsqueda experimental
de nuevas propuestas. La función se hará
en el interior del museo con una entrada
simbólica de 50 Bs.
Link:
http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-entretenimiento/cultura/140703/la-fuerza-del-teatro-de-strindberg-llega-a-margarita
Italia
Si mordono sul
collo i vampiri di Luca Ronconi nella
"Danza macabra" di Strindberg
Di Giuseppe Distefano
Il sole 24 ore, 3 luglio 2014
L'onda lunga del genere vampiresco di
tanto cinema e fumetto noir arriva anche
a teatro con Luca Ronconi. Che fa della
coppia di "Danza macabra" due esseri che
non si lesinano morsi sul collo a
succhiare la linfa vitale che li tiene
ancora in vita. Perverso rituale nel
quale attirano un terzo personaggio.
"Danza di Morte" (ovvero "Danza
Macabra") di August Strindberg, in
realtà è un dittico composto da "La
Danza Macabra", appunto, e "Der Vampir",
il vampiro, allusione al personaggio
principale del testo, Edgar, ufficiale
fallito, marito cinico e arrogante della
dolente Alice, una ex attrice senza
talento.
Leggete il sito:
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cultura/2014-07-03/si-mordono-collo-vampiri-luca-ronconi-danza-macabra-strindberg-113155.shtml
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USA, New York (NY)
Linnaeus most
influential
..at least according to Wikipedia, which
was analyzed by researchers at the
University of Toulouse.
Nordstjernan
Most influential Swede in history
The list of the people who today are
considered influential has been analyzed
by Young-Ho Eom, a researcher at the
University of Toulouse.
Swedish botanist, physician and
zoologist Carl von Linné (or Carl
Linnaeus as he is known in English), is
one of history’s most influential
persons, at least according to
Wikipedia.
The list of the people who today are
considered influential has been analyzed
by Young-Ho Eom, a researcher at the
University of Toulouse. The experiment
was conducted across 24 Wikipedia pages
in 24 languages, with clear results,
according to New Scientist. The
experiment also shows that Linné never
really became a prophet in his own
country, where he ends up in fifth place
after August Strindberg, Astrid
Lindgren, Carl XVI Gustaf and Bob Dylan.
First on the Arabic Wikipedia is
Muhammad, but Linné shows up in third
place. German Wikipedia is topped by
Napoleon, followed by Linné, and in the
third spot is Hitler. When a similar
investigation was conducted in 2010, the
list was topped by Jesus, Napoleon and
William Shakespeare.
Link:
http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/sweden/6508/
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Italia
Due terribili feste di mezza estate
Di Claudia Cannella
ViviMilano 03/07/2014
Descrizione: di August Strindberg,
progetto di Maurizio Schmidt, con il III
Corso Attori della "Paolo Grassi".
Su due testi di August Strindberg – “La
contessina Julie” e “Creditori” – cinque
cast diversi si alternano in scena in
una vera e propria festa teatrale.
Questo il calendario: “Creditori” (28
giugno, ore 17; 29 giugno ore 17 e 19;
30 giugno e 1 luglio, ore 19; 2 luglio,
ore 21; 3 luglio, ore 19, 4 luglio, ore
18 e 20), “La contessina Julie” (28
giugno, ore 19; 29 giugno, ore 15; 30
giugno e 1 luglio, ore 21; 2 luglio, ore
19 e 3 luglio, ore 21).
Link:
http://vivimilano.corriere.it/teatro/due-terribili-feste-mezza-estate_223474450640.shtml
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USA, Minneapolis (MN)
THEATER REVIEW |
Sally Rousse and Noah Bremer
pay tribute to August Strindberg with
"Kom Hit!" at the American Swedish
Institute
By Rene Meyer-Grimberg
TwinCities Daily Planet, July 02, 2014
Johan August Strindberg is known mostly
as a prolific author of plays, novels,
poetry and essays; he also painted,
married around four times and was
mentally unstable. His most produced
play is likely Miss Julie (1888), a
naturalistic and class-criticizing
piece. He dabbled in philosophy and the
occult and wrote novels considered to be
Sweden’s first modern literature. He was
also fond of photographing himself (see
ASI's exhibit " The Image of
Strindberg"). The American Swedish
Institute is presenting an array of
events to acquaint us with the work of
this enigmatic figure.
You are given a mustache to wear upon
arriving to see Sally Rousse and Noah
Bremer’s Kom Hit! (which translates to
Come Here!). As the mustachioed collect
in the foyer, you can judge who is up
for the ruse by who actually decides to
stick the mustache on their face. A
lithe, floating dancer gets the action
started and leads us to the castle
entrance.
Read more:
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/2014/07/02/moved-strindberg-kom-hit
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USA,Minneapolis (MN)
Meet August
Strindberg: Original Master of the
Selfie
By Molly Schelper
Minnesota Journeys, June 30, 2014
While the term “selfie” hadn’t been
coined yet, August Strindberg, Sweden’s
legendary poet, playwright, and visual
artist, was taking just that in the late
nineteenth century, long before the
trend caught on with the modern advent
of social media platforms. Whether being
captured by world-famous photographers,
amateurs, or himself, Strindberg was
often in photography studios, taking
images of himself to use as a visual
calling card, sending them to just about
anyone, whether it was friends, women,
colleagues, publishers, actors, or
acquaintances. As a result, Strindberg
became one of Sweden’s most well known
individuals. Despite his fame, questions
and opinions still surround him: Who was
Strindberg and do his hundreds of
self-promoting images accurately capture
him? Explore the answer to this question
at the American Swedish Institute, which
is offering a rare and intimate look
into the mysterious man as a part of the
exhibit The Image of Strindberg (through
Oct. 26),
Read more:
http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Minnesota-Journeys/June-2014/The-Original-Master-of-the-Selfie/
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Finland
Slutkonsert med humor… och stor
professionalitet
Av Egil Green
Borgåbladet 30.06.2014
De flesta känner till att Sommarmusiks
konstnärliga ledare, den kanadensiska
sopranen Barbar Hannigan är en
världsstjärna med professionalitet ut i
fingerspetsarna. Att hon också har humor
bevisades på söndagens
avslutningskonsert.
Det tog sig uttryck i programnumren,
sättet de utfördes på och på en
spralligt humör genom hela konserten.
Johann Strauss två korta verk som
inledde och avslutade konserten var inga
undantag. Första programnumret
Frühlingsstimmen, hör till
Wienfilharmonikernas standardrepertoare
på nyårskonserten och brukar framföras
av allvarstyngda frackklädda musiker,
seriöst och med stor pompa.
I Avantisalen fick publiken uppleva hur
Barbara Hannigan dirigerade orkestern
med överdrivna gester i rött hellångt
fodral och svart liten huvudbonad.
Stycket övergick i sång medan John
Storgårds tog över taktpinnen och
kvällens andra programnummer
tematonsättaren Gerald Barrys La Plus
Forte var ett faktum.
Verket grundat på August Strindbergs
enaktare Den starkare är skrivet för
just Barbara Hannigan. Det handlar om
ett dramatiskt möte mellan Strindbergs
hustru Siri von Essen, Madame Y, och den
yngre rivalen Amelie, som Strindberg
haft en utomäktenskaplig förbindelse
med.
Läs mer:
http://bbl.fi/kultur/2014-06-30/625266/slutkonsert-med-humor-och-stor-professionalitet
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Italia
Spoleto57, successo “diabolico” per
Danza Macabra di Luca Ronconi
Strepitosi Adriana Asti, Giorgio Ferrara
e Giovanni Crippa/Un "dramma" familiare
tra vampirismo e infarti secchi
Di Carlo Vantaggioli
tuttoggi.info 29 giugno 2014
(Carlo Vantaggioli)- Di Luca Ronconi si
sa molto, quasi tutto. Il suo lavoro è
stato vivisezionato e studiato nei più
minuziosi dettagli. Del regista si
conosce il rigore stilistico come anche
una certa idea di perfezionismo nei suoi
lavori, evidente frutto di lunghi studi
preparatori. Come è stato raccontato
dallo stesso Ronconi in conferenza
stampa di presentazione, per Danza
Macabra di August Strindberg, ci è
voluto più di un anno di studio per
decidere come mettere in scena la piece.
Ma che Ronconi fosse uno spiritoso
dissacratore di scritture di scena di
origine nordica, questa ci mancava. Del
resto, con la precisione che lo
contraddistingue, aveva detto, “Mi
piacerebbe che lo spettatore uscisse
sorridendo facendosi la domanda sul
perchè accade questo se ha appena visto
un dramma”. Promessa mantenuta, con
l’unica variante, che il pubblico non
sorride ma piuttosto ride di gusto. Anzi
a tratti sghignazza.
Leggete il
sito:
http://tuttoggi.info/spoleto57-successo-diabolico-per-danza-macabra-di-luca-ronconi/221262/
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Japan
Mori classic was
the epitome of Meiji style
By Roger Pulvers (Special To The Japan
Times)
The Japan Times, Jun 28, 2014
There has been no period in the history
of modern Japanese society so dramatic
and so remarkably tumultuous and fluid
as the Meiji Era (1868-1912), and no
single work of fiction more revelatory
in its depiction of that period than
Ogai Mori’s “The Wild Goose.” Now we
have, in Meredith McKinney’s just
published translation of this iconic
novel, a new vein into the heart of that
age.
[...]
Mori returned from his studies in
Germany in 1888. Coincidentally, this
was the year that Swedish playwright
August Strindberg wrote “Miss Julie.”
Mori, who subsequently read the play in
German translation, was deeply affected
by it, and we see affinities between its
heroine and Otama, not the least in the
appearance in their life of a caged
bird, a symbol of incarceration by their
society, Julie being the poor little
inhibited rich girl on the way down, and
Otama, the genuinely poor girl who
dreamt, without prospect or hope, of
elevating herself.
Read more:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/06/28/books/book-reviews/mori-classic-epitome-meiji-style/#.U-otbUiZ3yw
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Polska
Nominacje Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia:
Eseistyka
Tomasz Fiałkowski
Tygodnik powszechny 26 cze 2014
Modernizm łączymy niemal automatycznie z
kategorią postępu – trzy studia Jana
Balbierza, autora m.in. książki „Nowy
kosmos. Strindberg, nauka i znaki”,
pokazują na przykładzie Skandynawii, jak
nieoczywista jest to kwestia.
Postaciami centralnymi są trzej twórcy:
poeta szwedzki Gunnar Ekelöf
(1907–1968), norweski noblista Knut
Hamsun (1859–1952) i sławny rodak
Ekelöfa August Strindberg (1849–1912),
tło zaś stanowi panorama modernizmu
europejskiego i amerykańskiego.
Najmłodszy z pisarzy służy za przykład,
jak innowacyjności formalnej i
awangardowemu dążeniu do zerwania z
dawnymi kliszami towarzyszy
konstruowanie własnej, „wynalezionej”
tradycji – w tym przypadku tradycji
hermetycznej i mistycznej. Studium
drugie poświęcone jest modernistycznej
refleksji nad zmysłami i ciałem; punkt
dojścia stanowi „Głód” Hamsuna, powieść,
w której cielesne dyskursy nowoczesności
doprowadzone zostały do skrajności.
Studium trzecie, „W teozoficznym
klasztorze. Nauka, okultyzm i krytyka
kultury w późnych powieściach
Strindberga”, pokazuje autora „Czarnych
chorągwi” jako obsesyjnego wręcz krytyka
współczesnej cywilizacji i przemian
obyczajowych.
Czytaj dalej:
http://tygodnik.onet.pl/kultura/nominacje-nagrody-literackiej-gdynia-eseistyka/l27e5
Jan Balbierz, „À propos inferna.
Tradycje wynalezione i dyskursy
nieczyste w kulturach modernizmu
skandynawskiego”,
Wydawnictwo Universitas, Kraków 2013
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USA, Minneapolis (MN)
Arts Spotlight: 498
By John Townsend
Lavender, June 26, 2014
Kom Hit! (Come Here!)
Through July 10
American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park
Av., Mpls.
(612) 871-4907
ww.ASImn.org
August Strindberg was one of the 19th
century’s most provocative writers. His
views on women and class inequality
reveal a man in constant turmoil.
Acclaimed dancer, Sally Rousse, and
physical theater wonderman, Noah Bremer,
reflect that turmoil along with humor in
this piece that draws its inspiration
from the playwright’s texts. Their stage
is essentially the Turnblad Mansion
better known as the American Swedish
Institute.
Rousse describes: “Kom Hit! is a wild,
roaming dance theater work inspired by
characters of Strindberg’s plays. It
leads and chases audiences all over the
three floors of the American Swedish
Institute for an hour, revealing
relationships and obsessions and
probably a few fears. Strindberg was a
dark guy! There are dances in cloak
rooms, grand ballrooms, on staircases,
across the courtyard, and on the terrace
of the new Nelson Building. And puppetry
and live music.”
Read more:
http://www.lavendermagazine.com/our-scene/arts-spotlight-498/
USA, Minneapolis
(MN)
Dancing through a
mansion
By Claude Peck
Star Tribune June 25, 2014
A young woman, barefoot and wearing all
white, invokes the spirit of Sweden's
literary hero August Strindberg, then
opens the heavy wooden doors of the
Turnblad mansion on Park Avenue in
Minneapolis to begin "KOM HIT!" In the
hour that follows, audience members (no
more than 35 will be allowed at each
performance) poke their heads into
nearly all of the mansion's 33 rooms,
where they witness snippets of modern
dance, mime, music and a small amount of
narration. Don't expect to learn much
about Strindberg, as the dance-theater
piece is "loosely inspired by," and not
directly drawn from his life and
obsessions.
Read more:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/264590181.html
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Nigeria
Command
Performance of August Strindberg's DANCE OF
DEATH
WhereEvent june 2014
Informations
C/o The Korean Cultural Centre, 2nd Floor,
Rivers Plaza, 83, Ralph Shodeinde Street,
(Opposite Federal Ministry of Finance),
Central Business District,Abuja
Saturday 28 June 2014, 15:00 till Sunday 29
June 2014, 19:00
Organized by : Arojah Royal Theatre
Read more at
http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Arojah-Royal-Theatre-Command-Performance-of-August-Strindberg-s-DANCE-OF-DEATH#iMkG1rVPRGFcmIMq.99
Link:
http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Arojah-Royal-Theatre-Command-Performance-of-August-Strindberg-s-DANCE-OF-DEATH
Italia
Festival dei
2Mondi, Spoleto
Spoleto57, presentata “Danza macabra” con la
regia di Luca Ronconi
Protagonisti Giorgio Ferrara ed Adriana
Asti/Dramma, ma anche ironia nella regia di
Ronconi
Di Carlo Vantaggioli
tuttoggi, 25 giugno 2014
Danza Macabra (o anche Danza di Morte ndr.)
di August Strindberg potrebbe intimorire
qualunque spettatore amante del teatro, non
fosse altro che per l’ambientazione nordica
della storia (un isola) e per il carattere
psicologico e fortemente introspettivo del
testo del drammaturgo svedese.
E’ forse riflettendo su questa eventualità
che, alla presentazione per la stampa della
piece in programma nella serata inaugurale
del Festival dei Due Mondi, il regista Luca
Ronconi, insolitamente vivace e divertito,
si affretta a tranquillizzare gli addetti ai
lavori su alcune modifiche in chiave
leggera, del testo di Strindberg. Non una
virata netta verso la desacralizzazione
dell’argomento, ovvero la dura presa di
coscienza per una coppia, isolana ed
isolata, dei fallimenti coniugali, complice
l’arrivo di un terzo incomodo, quanto
piuttosto un attento e certosino lavoro di
“asciugatura”, traduzione ed adattamento del
testo ad opera di Roberto Alonge. Via dunque
le lungaggini e le contraddizioni testuali,
tanto che la scrittura originale passa da
una durata di 3-4 ore, ad un ora e mezza
della messa in scena spoletina.
Leggete il sito:
http://tuttoggi.info/spoleto57-presentata-danza-macabra-con-la-regia-di-luca-ronconi/220385/
Italia
A Roma
Strindberg senza frontiere
Di
Gianfranco Nitti
Mondo in Tasca, 20/06/2014
La 19esima edizione della conferenza
internazionale su August Strindberg
(1849-1912), grande scrittore e
commediografo svedese, si è tenuta per la
prima volta in Italia. Circa 70
partecipanti, studiosi di Strindberg da
tutto il mondo, si sono riuniti all’Istituto
Italiano di Studi Germanici in Villa Sciarra
Wurts dal 5 al 7 giugno scorsi.
La conferenza, con il titolo “Strindberg
across borders” (Strindberg attraverso le
frontiere), è stata organizzata da Massimo
Ciaravolo, professore associato al
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature
Nordiche presso l’Università di Firenze, in
collaborazione con l'Associazione Strindberg
a Stoccolma, l'Istituto di Studi Germanici a
Roma, e i professori Andrea Meregalli
(Milano), Camilla Storskog (Milano) e Sara
Culeddu (Trento).
Durante la conferenza è anche stata
annunciata la nascita della prima società
strindberghiana italiana, ASTRI,
l’Associazione Italiana di Studi
Strindberghiani con sede legale presso
l’Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici.
L’Associazione si propone di favorire e
approfondire la conoscenza, in Italia e a
livello internazionale, dell’opera di August
Strindberg nonché del suo contesto
culturale, di sviluppare studi e ricerche,
di curare pubblicazioni di rilevante
carattere scientifico e traduzioni, di
organizzare lezioni, seminari e discussioni
pubbliche di libri e lavori che abbiano
attinenza con il suo specifico campo
d’indagine e di intrattenere rapporti quanto
più possibile organici di collaborazione con
le società strindberghiane già costituitesi
in altri paesi europei ed extra-europei.
Leggete il sito:
http://www.mondointasca.org/articolo.php?ida=27365
UK
The Ustinov
Studio, Bath Announces Autumn Season
Broadway World, UK, June 12, 2014
The Ustinov Studio, Bath is delighted to
announce its Autumn 2014 season, which will
comprise three black comedies from some of
the greatest names in European drama:
Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Play Strindberg,
Florian Zeller's The Father and Eugène
Ionesco's Exit the King.
Read more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/The-Ustinov-Studio-Bath-Announces-Autumn-Season-20140612#.U6il2qiZ3yw
USA, Minneapolis (MN)
American
Swedish Institute celebrates August
Strindberg
By William Fietzer
Examiner, June 11, 2014
Merriam-Webster defines an iconoclast as
someone who “attacks settled beliefs or
institutions” which translated from the
Greek “eikonoklastēs” means “image
destroyer.” During a career that produced
over 60 plays and 30 works of fiction and
cultural analysis, Swedish writer August
Strindberg was considered “a bold
experimenter and iconoclast throughout” the
19th century whose works attacked the mores
of Scandinavian society.
Ironically, the American Swedish Institute’s
new exhibit, “Images of Strindberg”
demonstrates the playwright’s use of his
image “to systematically build his brand in
Sweden and around the world through
carefully curated photographs and writing.”
Running from June 12, 2014 to October 26,
2014, ASI’s exhibit forms the feature
attraction of their annual Midsommar
Celebration on Saturday, June 14, 2014 from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Read more:
http://www.examiner.com/article/american-swedish-institute-celebrates-august-strindberg
Deutschland
Mit Strindberg
im Schwimmbad
Berlin Online 11.06.2014
Schon vor 12 Jahren wurde das Stadtbad
Steglitz geschlossen. Statt der Badekultur
widmet man sich dort nun den schönen
Künsten, beispielsweise mit einem Stück von
August Strindberg.
Theater im Schwimmbad und Frühstück auf
Startblöcken gibt es nicht überall - aber in
Berlin-Steglitz. Vom 12. bis zum 14. Juni
2014 wird dort im alten Stadtbad das Stück
"Totentanz" des Schweden August Strindberg
aufgeführt - allerdings in einer
modernisierten Version. Die Schauspieler
Anette Daugardt und Uwe Neumann stellen
Strindbergs traditionelle
Geschlechterrollen, die sich in dem Ehedrama
zeigen, auf den Kopf. Nicht zwischen einem
Patriarchen und seiner stillen, ohnmächtigen
Frau - der ursprünglichen Konstellation -
vollzieht sich der Totentanz der Beziehung,
sondern zwischen einer erfolgreichen
Geschäftsfrau und ihrem Mann, einem
arbeitslosen Schauspieler.
Weiterführende Informationen:
http://www.stadtbad-steglitz.de/
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.berlinonline.de/nachrichten/steglitz/mit-strindberg-im-schwimmbad-52517
USA, San Antonio (Tx)
William Razavi's JULIE to Play Performing
Arts San Antonio, 6/13-28
Broadway World, San Antonio, June 10 2014
The Southwest Association of Literary &
Dramatic Artists presents Julie: a new
version of August Strindberg's Miss Julie by
William Razavi, directed by Emily
Fitzgerald. The production runs June 13-15,
19-21, 26-28 at 8pm; June 22 at 2pm at
Performing Arts San Antonio (PASA), 15705
San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, Texas, 78232.
Rad more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/san-antonio/article/William-Razavis-JULIE-to-Play-Performing-Arts-San-Antonio-613-28-20140610#.U6ilxKiZ3yw
Vattenhål och grönska
Text: C-J CHARPENTIER
Kristianstadsbladet 10 juni 2014
Det finns alltid anledning till pauser när
man promenerar på byen. Författaren och
kulturskribenten C-J Charpentier tar med oss
på en tur till dryckesställen och parker.
En snöig natt i december 1887 avfyrade en
galning fyra revolverskott inne på krogen
Rydbergs Källare på Östergade 13 i
Köpenhamn, varefter han framgångslöst
försökte klättra upp på statyn av Christian
V till häst på Kongens Nytorv; följt av
blodiga handflator, polisingripande och
dagspressrubriker.
Rydbergs Källare var dåtidens vattenhål för
artister och konstnärer, och galningens namn
var August Strindberg, som vid den här
tidpunkten bodde på Leopolds Hotel på
Hovedvagtsgade 6 – för övrigt samma hotell
där Victoria Benedictsson tog livet av sig
ett halvt år senare efter en trasslig affär
med Georg Brandes.
Läs mer:
http://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/kultur/article2175720/Vattenhal-och-gronska.html
USA, New York (NY)
The Sound! The
Fury!
By Terry
Teachout
The Wall Street Journal, Jun 6, 2014
[...]
A simpler and far less costly way to make
any play “immersive” is to do it in a tiny
theater. Writers Theatre does just that each
time it presents a show in its 56-seat
performance space, in which every audience
member is within arm’s length of the actors.
To see August Strindberg’s “The Dance of
Death” in such tight quarters is likely to
be a terrifying experience irrespective of
the merits of the production—and this one,
directed by Henry Wishcamper and performed
in Conor McPherson’s suitably blunt
English-language adaptation, is as good as
it can possibly be.
Read more:
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-549280/
Italia
Le prime foto
dal film "La Signorina Julie"
Di Lorenzo Donnini
LaBottegaDiHamlin, 06 giugno 2014
Sembrano veri e propri quadri le foto
rilasciate per il lancio del film La
Signorina Julie, adattamento cinematografico
della nota piéce teatrale composta nel 1888
dal drammaturgo svedese August Strindberg.
Protagonisti della pellicola Jessica
Chastain, Colin Farrel (che si esibiscono
anche in un intenso bacio) e Samantha
Morton. Dietro la macchina da presa
l'attrice e regista Liv Ullmann, assente
dalle scene dal 2000, anno del suo ultimo
film L'infedele.
Il film scritto dalla stessa Ullmann e
girato in Gran Bretagna, racconta la storia
d'amore tra Julie (Chastain) e John (Farrel)
la cui passione li porterà a scappare
insieme via dalla città. La vicenda si
svolge in una notte di mezz'estate di fine
Ottocento in una cittadina svedese e pone al
centro della storia diversi temi quali la
lotta tra classi differenti, il rapporto
difficile tra i sessi e il contrasto tra
civiltà e identità.
Link:
http://www.labottegadihamlin.it/news/8842-le-prime-foto-dal-film-la-signorina-julie.html
USA, Miami (Fl)
The
Naked Stage's Miss Julie: One of the Year's
Best Productions
By John Thomason
Miami New Times, Thursday, Jun 5 2014
August Strindberg's 1888 masterpiece
chronicles an eventful Saturday night and
Sunday morning in the servants' quarters of
the estate of a Swedish count. Miss Julie
(Katherine Amadeo), a flighty noblewoman,
escapes her upper-class trappings for a
midsummer's eve of frivolity with educated
valet Jean (Matthew William Chizever). Their
actions, fueled by lust and alcohol, explore
the life-changing implications of a carnal
mistake, after which master and servant
regularly switch places, vitriolic
invectives are spat, feminist arguments fall
on the deaf ears of a patriarchal system,
and the only escape is death. This bracing
and urgent production from the Naked Stage
proves that Miss Julie is as relevant now as
it was more than a century ago.
Read more:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2014-06-05/culture/miss-julie-naked-stage-pelican-theatre-miami/
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Ireland
Heartthrob
Colin Farrell shows off softer side in
latest big budget flick
By Laura Butler
Independent, 03/06/2014
He’s played an alcoholic, a cop and a
vampire.
Now acting heartthrob Colin Farrell is
showing off his softer, more romantic side
in his new movie Miss Julie.
The Castleknock native shot the forthcoming
flick alongside Oscar nominee Jessica
Chastain last summer and the first official
images of the big budget production have
finally been unveiled ahead of its release
in cinemas.
New pictures show Dubliner Colin and redhead
beauty Jessica in an passionate embrace,
while others show them looking down the
camera lens dressed in full period costume.
Read more:
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/heartthrob-colin-farrell-shows-off-softer-side-in-latest-big-budget-flick-30325151.html
UK
Rosalie Craig
and Shaun Evans star in Miss Julie and Black
Comedy
By Ian Westhead
ATV Today, June 02, 2014
Rosalie Craig and Shaun Evans are to lead
the cast of Miss Julie and Black Comedy at
Chichester, a new production of an acclaimed
double bill which celebrates a key moment in
this Theatre’s history, and its long
association with playwright Peter Shaffer.
Black Comedy is an exhilarating farce, which
follows impoverished artist Brindsley Miller
as he tries to plan the biggest night of his
career at his flat, aided and abetted by his
fiancée and her father, and other assorted
visitors. When the flat is plunged into
darkness, events take gloriously unexpected
turns.
Peter Shaffer’s work is a major thread
running through Festival 2014. His
association with Chichester dates back to
1964 when The Royal Hunt of the Sun was
commissioned by Laurence Olivier, the
Theatre’s first Artistic Director. This was
followed by Black Comedy which was
commissioned by legendary dramaturg Kenneth
Tynan. Miss Julie and Black Comedy first
premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in
1965 starring Maggie Smith and Albert
Finney.
Read more:
http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/p56128-theatre/
Norge
Strindberg-brev kan leses av alle
Tusenvis av
brev, telegrammer og postkort som August
Strindberg skrev, er nå tilgjengelig
digitalt for allmennheten.
Aftenposten, 02.jun. 2014
Det er Litteraturbanken.se som sammen med
Strindbergselskapet har digitalisert de i
alt 8832 brevene med mere som Strindberg
skrev mellom 1858 og 1912, melder TT.
Dermed kan folk flest både lese brev som den
unge Strindberg skrev til sine foreldre, så
vel som hva den voksne mannen brukte pennen
til å ytre seg om til så vel redaktører og
skuespillere som sine forelskelser og
fiender.
Ifølge en av de digitaliserte bøkene,
«August Strindbergs brev 1» utgitt av
Strindbergselskapet fra 1948 av, var
Strindberg «kanskje den siste store
forfatter, for hvem brevet er den naturlige
uttrykksformen».
I forordet sammenlignes Strindberg med sine
norske kolleger Ibsen, som kalles «en treg
og uvillig brevskriver», og Bjørnson, som
skrev «med overstrømmende velvilje».
Det fremholdes at Strindberg skrev utav «et
indre behov» - og at brevskrivingen til dels
erstattet personlig kontakt. (©NTB)
Link:
http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Strindberg-brev-kan-leses-av-alle-7588659.html#.U6iZMKiZ3yw
UK, Northern Irland
Miss Julie:
Colin Farrell
and Jessica Chastain share kiss at Castle
Coole in Fermanagh
By Maureen Coleman
Belfast Telegraph, 02 June 2014
Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain share a
passionate kiss in the latest stills to be
released from forthcoming film Miss Julie.
The Hollywood actors play doomed lovers
whose illicit affair ends in tragedy in the
Liv Ullmann directed movie.
But while the original play by Johan August
Strindberg was set in late 19th century
Sweden, the big screen adaptation was
brought to life in the stately surroundings
of Castle Coole in Co Fermanagh.
Read more:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/miss-julie-colin-farrell-and-jessica-chastain-share-kiss-at-castle-coole-in-fermanagh-30321125.html
USA, Chicago (Ill)
Northwestern
University Theatre in June, Shows Run
Through 6/7
Broadway World, Chicago, May 31 2014
[...]
The Wirtz Center will be the site of the
final performance of August Strindberg's "A
Dream Play," part of Northwestern's MFA
Collaboration Series, which runs through
June 1.
[...]
MFA Collaboration Series, "A Dream Play" by
August Strindberg, 8 p.m. Friday, May 30; 2
p.m. Saturday, May 31 and 2 p.m. Sunday,
June 1, Wirtz Center's Hal and Martha Hyer
Wallis Theatre, 1949 Campus Drive,
Northwestern University, Evanston campus.
Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version
of Strindberg's "A Dream Play," is directed
by MFA candidate Aaron Snook, tells the
story of a young woman from another world
who visits earth to see if life is really as
difficult as people make it out to be.
Characters merge into each other, locations
change in an instant and a locked door
becomes an obsessively recurrent image.
Strindberg's 1902 play is an amalgam of
Freud, Alice's "Wonderland" and Strindberg's
own private symbolism. Tickets are $10.
Link:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Northwestern-University-Theatre-in-June-Shows-Run-Through-67-20140531#.U6daZqiZ3yw
Strindbergs
brev digitaliserade
Västerbotten-Kuriren 1 juni 2014
Tusentals brev, telegram, vykort och
biljetter skrivna av August Strindberg finns
nu tillgängliga digitalt för allmänheten.
Det är litteraturbanken.se som tillsammans
med Strindbergssällskapet har digitaliserat
Strindbergs sammanlagt 8832 brev mellan åren
1857 och 1912. Samlingen spänner mellan brev
från den unge Strindberg som skriver till
sina föräldrar och den vuxne mannen som
skriver till redaktörer, skådespelare,
förälskelser och fiender.
Länk:
http://www.vk.se/1206228/strindbergs-brev-digitaliserade
USA
New Images Of
Jessica Chastain & Colin Farrell
n Liv Ullman's 'Miss Julie' Plus Poster
By Kevin Jagernauth
IndieWire, maj 30, 2014
With Cannes now out of the way, three major
festivals—Venice, Telluride and Toronto—are
on the horizon, where even more new films
will unspool for the first time. And one
we're hoping/expecting to see is "Miss
Julie" starring Jessica Chastain and Colin
Farrell. And today a batch of new images and
a poster have dropped for the movie.
Read more:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/new-images-of-jessica-chastain-colin-farrell-in-liv-ullmans-miss-julie-plus-poster-20140530
UK
Craig And
Evans Lead Casts For Miss Julie/Black Comedy
At CFT This Summer
Broadway World, West End May 30 2014
Rosalie Craig and Shaun Evans lead the cast
of Miss Julie / Black Comedy at Chichester,
a new production of an acclaimed double bill
which celebrates a key moment in this
Theatre's history, and its long association
with playwright Peter Shaffer.
Read more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Craig-And-Evans-Lead-Casts-For-MISS-JULIEBLACK-COMEDY-At-CFT-This-Summer-20140530#.U6daQKiZ3yw
USA
New Stills of
Jessica Chastain in Liv Ullman’s ‘Miss
Julie’ Adaptation
By Alfonso Espina
Up & Comers May 29, 2014
Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell get up
and close and personal in the new stills
from Liv Ullman‘s 1880s drama “Miss Julie.”
Based on Swedish playwright August
Strindberg’s 1888 play, “Miss Julie” is set
over the course of one 1880s midsummer night
in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland (as opposed
to Sweden in the original). Chastain stars
in the titular role of an upper class woman
who meets and falls for John (Farrell), her
father’s valet. Despite their class
differences, the two form a strong
connection and become entangled in a toxic
relationship that sees them battling over
issues of power, sex and freedom.
In a recent interview with Collider, Farrell
revealed further details about the upcoming
adaptation:
Rad more:
http://upandcomers.net/2014/05/29/jessica-chastain-liv-ullman-miss-julie-stills/
Australia
Festival marks new seriousness for MKA
Theatre
By John Bailey
The Sidney Morning Herald, May 27, 2014
When MKA Theatre first appeared in 2010 it
did so with plenty of bravado, promising the
only company in Australia dedicated
exclusively to new writing from around the
world. But while the mission hasn't changed,
the landscape around it has, says the
company's new co-creative director John
Kachoyan.
"The new team at MTC are doing shows that
might have been Red Stitch shows five years
ago,'' he says. "Red Stitch is doing more
new work or more collaborative work. I think
the eco-system's shifted, and MKA isn't
exactly growing up but we're expanding.
We've got some pretty significant work this
year as well as the stuff that we always do
well, which is anarchic pop-ups and things
like that."
[...]
There's a timeliness to The Defence, for
instance, which will premiere in Melbourne
as part of HYPRTXT. While there's been much
talk on the "adaptation versus original"
debate in recent years, The Defence is that
discussion's "second generation" according
to Kachoyan. The work takes as its text the
misogynistic rantings of August Strindberg's
final days, when the syphilis-addled writer
looked back on his three failed marriages.
As it unravels, however, the connection
between such a view and the institution of
theatre itself is drawn out in compelling
and entirely contemporary ways.
Read more:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/festival-marks-new-seriousness-for-mka-theatre-20140528-zrq19.html
USA, Florida
Naked Stage Unleashes Mercurial Emotions In
Miss Julie
By Bill Hirschman
Florida Theater On Stage May 26, 2014
For a century, August Strindberg’s tragedy
Miss Julie has been interpreted as a seesaw
of power exercised through class and sexual
politics. But in Naked Stage’s production,
as lives lie in ruins, everyone ultimately
is revealed a slave, never a master, when
they toy with those three elements. Any
impression of dominance is self-delusional.
In 1888, Miss Julie was considered a
naturalistic play, but not in the 21st
Century. This edition seems an opera in
which outsized emotions threaten to swamp a
frail craft tossed helplessly on an ocean at
the convergence of multiple hurricanes.
But in this case, instead of a fairy tale
populated by two-dimensional Egyptian
princesses and starving artists, the arias
of mercurial moods provide an intimate study
of psycho-sexual dynamics that was unusually
insightful for its time.
Read more:
http://www.floridatheateronstage.com/reviews/naked-stage-unleashes-mercurial-emotions-in-miss-julie/
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USA, Miami (Fl)
The Naked
Stage returns with a riveting ‘Miss Julie’
BY Christine Dolen
Miami Herald Monday, 05.26.14
Shocking, controversial and initially banned
from production in multiple countries,
August Strindberg’s naturalistic 1888 drama
Miss Julie has become a world theater
classic. Though attitudes toward sex and
class have evolved vastly since the Swedish
playwright crafted his powerhouse script,
Miss Julie remains riveting, disturbing and
psychologically provocative.
The proof is now onstage at Barry
University’s Pelican Theatre, where The
Naked Stage is performing its intense new
production of Miss Julie.
Directed with exquisite attention to detail
by Margaret M. Ledford, Miss Julie reunites
Naked Stage artistic director Katherine
Amadeo and Matthew William Chizever, last
paired in the company’s powerful Turn of the
Screw. The two have a fiery dramatic
chemistry, one that deepens the impact of
the power shifts and sexual gamesmanship
inherent in Miss Julie.
Read more:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/26/4139103/the-naked-stage-returns-with-a.html
USA, Fort Laurdale (Fl)
The Naked Stage Presents Strindberg's Miss
Julie, Now thru 6/8
BroadwayWorld, Fort Laurdale May 23 2014
The Naked Stage is back with Michael Meyer's
vivid translation of August Strindberg's
classic Drama, MISS JULIE.
The year is 1894. Midsummer night's
celebrations are in full swing, but the
Count's daughter, the beautiful and
imperious Miss Julie, feels trapped and
alone. Downstairs in the servants kitchen,
handsome and rebellious footman, Jean, is
feeling restless. When they meet, a passion
is ignited that soon spirals out of control.
Strindberg's masterpiece caused a scandal
when first produced -- and has been hugely
popular ever since -- for its searingly
honest portrait of the class system and
human sexuality.
Miss Julie stars Naked Stage Artistic
Director Katherine Amadeo, Matthew William
Chizever and Deborah L. Sherman, and is
directed by Margaret M. Ledford.
Tickets on sale now!
IF YOU GO:
The Naked Stage's production of MISS JULIE
runs May 23rd - June 8th, 2014 (Thursday -
Saturday @ 8 p.m., Sunday @ 2 p.m.).
The Naked Stage performs at the Pelican
Theatre located on the campus of Barry
University, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue in Miami
Shores.
Single seats are $30; Senior discount
tickets are $18 (60+); Student discount
tickets are $12 (must provide ID at door).
Tickets may be purchased at the door, online
at
www.nakedstage.org or by phone at 1(866)
811-4111 (The Naked Stage's Box Office is
run by TheaterMania).
Doors open at 7:40 pm. The Pelican Theatre
has 43 general admission seats and they fill
up fast, so get your tickets now!
Link:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/fort-lauderdale/article/The-Naked-Stage-Presents-Strindbergs-MISS-JULIE-523-68-20140522#.U6dM0qiZ3yw
Costa Rica
La cara oscura del matrimonio en escena
Por Yendry Miranda
La Nación 23 de mayo de 2014
Hay amores que, aunque matan, nada los logra
detener. Son esas relaciones que arrastran a
sus protagonistas a un ciclo de amargura y
tristeza del cual parece que nunca van a
salir.
La tragedia de estas relaciones será motivo
de reflexión en el espectáculo Dramas
íntimos, una coproducción entre el Teatro La
Maga y el Teatro Universitario.
La puesta en escena se presentará desde
este fin de semana y hasta el 8 de junio, en
la sala de los universitarios, en San Pedro.
Este espectáculo compilará dos conocidas
creaciones del dramaturgo sueco August
Strindberg: Danza macabra y La más fuerte ,
bajo la dirección de Silvia Arce.
Son obras que hablan sobre el lado oscuro
del matrimonio y sus problemas, como la
infidelidad, el abuso de poder, la rutina y
la inconformidad.
Leer más:
http://www.nacion.com/ocio/teatro/cara-oscura-matrimonio-escena_0_1416258403.html
España
La Biblioteca
Torrente Ballester acoge una sesión de
teatro
Por Redacción
Salamanca24horas, Jueves, 22 de Mayo de 2014
La programación de las Bibliotecas
Municipales, organizada por el Ayuntamiento
de Salamanca, continúa este jueves, a las
20:00 horas, con una sesión de teatro para
adultos dentro del ciclo municipal
Aficionad@s en escena.
El grupo Quiral Teatro pondrá en escena “La
Danza de la Muerte” del escritor y
dramaturgo sueco August Strindberg,
considerado el renovador del teatro sueco y
precursor o antecedente del teatro de la
crueldad y teatro del absurdo. La compañía
pondrá en escena esta obra con elementos
multimedia que ayudarán al espectador a
introducirse en las relaciones de estos
personajes tan humanos.
Link:
http://www.salamanca24horas.com/cultura/111297-la-biblioteca-torrente-ballester-acoge-el-proximo-jueves-una-sesion-de-teatro
Costa Rica
Montaje del Teatro Universitario y Teatro La
Maga
Convivencia en pareja, un drama llevado a
escena
Por María Eugenia Fonseca Calvo
Universidad de Costa Rica, noticias
2014-05-22
Los temores, las inseguridades y
contradicciones que poseen los seres humanos
para convivir en pareja, es la trama
principal de la puesta en escena que se
estrenará este jueves 22 de mayo, a las 8:00
p. m., en la sala de Teatro Universitario.
Se trata de Dramas íntimos, basada en las
obras del dramaturgo sueco August
Strindberg, “Danza macabra” y “La más
fuerte”, bajo la dirección de Silvia Arce.
Ambas piezas comparten el lado oscuro del
matrimonio, de esa relación compleja que
desafía la tarea más difícil de los seres
humanos: la convivencia. La infidelidad, el
abuso de poder, la rutina y la inconformidad
son solo algunos de estos dramas íntimos que
sufren los personajes de ambas obras.
Leer más:
http://www.ucr.ac.cr/noticias/2014/05/22/convivencia-en-pareja-un-drama-llevado-a-escena.html
Brasil
Peça ‘Credores’ traz leitura contemporânea
de dramas familiares
AquiAcontece 21/05/2014
O Teatro de Arena Sérgio Cardoso, anexo ao
Teatro Deodoro, recebe nesta quarta (21) e
quinta (22), às 20 horas, a Boyásha Trupe de
Teatro, do Espírito Santo, com o espetáculo
‘Credores’. Os ingressos, a R$ 20 (inteira)
e R$ 10 (meia), serão vendidos nos dias do
espetáculo.
Fundada em Vila Velha-ES há cerca de cinco
anos, a Boyásha Trupe de Teatro traz a
Maceió seu segundo trabalho, “Credores”,
também baseado na obra de August Strindberg,
como “A mais forte”, encenado em 2011.
A separação de Teka e Gustavo rende um livro
onde ela aponta todas as falhas de Gustavo
como marido. Movido pelo desejo de vingança,
Gustavo se aproxima de Adolfo, o atual
marido, e coloca em prática um plano de
destruição meticulosamente planejado, numa
trama repleta de jogos de dominação e
embates psicológicos.
O pensamento “Família, tu és morada de todos
os vícios da sociedade, tu és a casa de
repouso das mulheres que amam suas asas, a
prisão do pai de família e o inferno das
crianças” é uma maneira tímida de descrever
a mente polêmica deste “dramaturgo do eu”,
August Strindberg, que, em 1888, abordaria
em “Credores” a derrota do ideal de
sociedade ocidental do século XIX, como os
laços matrimoniais, estandarte da felicidade
pulverizado.
A obra de Strindberg ganha uma leitura
contemporânea pelas mãos dos Boyáshas,
propondo uma reconfiguração das "quatro
paredes" naturalistas, resultando numa
relação intimista do público com o ambiente
íntimo do quarto de hotel de Teka e Adolfo,
como voyeurs desta intrincada trama.
Fruto de um processo de pesquisa orientado
pelo diretor Fernando Yamamoto, do grupo
Clowns de Shakespeare (RN), o trabalho
contou com encontros com o diretor em
Vitória, além de um intercâmbio entre os
Boyáshas e os Clowns de Shakespeare no
“Barracão Clowns”, em Natal.
Link:
http://aquiacontece.com.br/noticia/2014/05/21/peca-credores-traz-leitura-contemporanea-de-dramas-familiares
Costa Rica
Teatro
Universitario UCR presenta dos piezas
teatrales de August Strindberg
Por
William Álvarez
Teletica may 19 2014
Este 22 de mayo, el Teatro Universitario de
la Universidad de Costa Rica presentará dos
piezas teatrales del sueco August
Strindberg.
La puesta en escena está bajo la dirección
de Silvia Arce y en ella se trabajó en
coproducción del Teatro Universitario y el
Teatro La Maga.
El elenco cuenta con la participación de
Rubén Pagura, María Bonilla, Vinicio Rojas,
Carolina Zumbado y Silvia Arce. La trama del
“Dramas íntimos” se concentra en “el lado
oscuro del matrimonio, de esa relación
compleja que desafía la tarea más difícil de
los seres humanos: la convivencia”.
“La infidelidad, el abuso de poder, la
rutina y la inconformidad son solo algunos
de estos dramas íntimos que sufren los
personajes de ambas obras”, indicó la
producción.
El montaje estará hasta el 8 de junio de
2014, en horarios de jueves, viernes y
sábado a las 8:00 p. m. y domingos a las
6:00 p. m.
El Teatro Universitario está ubicado 100
metros este de la Librería Universitaria en
la Avenida Cultura, en la Calle de la
Amargura.
Para más información puede llamar a los
teléfonos 2511-5722 u 8835-8372.
Link:
http://www.teletica.com/Entretenimiento/53765-Teatro-Universitario-UCR-presenta-dos-piezas-teatrales-de-August-Strindberg.note.aspx
USA, Chicago (Ill)
Writers Theatre Adds Performances to THE
DANCE OF DEATH; Runs thru 8/3
Pressrealease
BroadwayWorld, Chicago May 16 2014
Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and
Executive Director Kate Lipuma announce a
two-week extension of The Dance of Death by
August Strindberg, in a new version by Conor
McPherson and directed by Henry Wishcamper.
The production, featuring Shannon Cochran
(Alice), Philip Earl Johnson (Kurt) and
Larry Yando (Edgar) now runs through August
3, 2014 at 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe.
Read more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Writers-Theatre-Adds-Performances-to-THE-DANCE-OF-DEATH-Runs-thru-83-20140516#.U6QVQaiZ3yw
___________________________
Pressinformation tisdag
20 maj kl 10.00 i teatercaféet på Kalmar
Teater
Uruppförande av
"Leka med Elden", en kammaropera i en akt av
Roger Assar Johansson och lunchteatern
"Strindbergs brev till Harriet Bosse".
MyNewsDesk
2014-05-19
"Leka med Elden"
5 och 6 juni kl
19.00
– Det är
verkligen roligt att kunna göra denna
Strindbergsatsning på Kalmar Teater genom
att vi närmar oss nationalskalden
runt
nationaldagen, säger Kjell Lindström, chef
för Länsmusiken. Kompositören Roger Assar
Johansson har utgått
från Strindbergs
"Leka med Elden" då han skrivit sin
kammaropera med samma namn.
Operan är
skriven för sex sångare och 11 musiker och
får sitt uruppförande på Kalmar Teater under
ledning av kompositören.
[...]
"Strindbergs brev till Harriet
Bosse"
6 juni kl 12.00
Dessutom
framförs en lunchteaterföreställning på
Teatercaféet den 6 juni kl 12.00
som
berör Strindbergs brev till Harriet Bosse.
Läs mer:
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/destinationkalmar/pressreleases/
strindberg-paa-kalmar-teater-5-och-6-juni-997365
ENTRÉ:
Leka med elden: vuxen 270
kr, ungdom 110 kr, med scenpass 220 kr.
Strindbergs brev till Harriet Bosse: 210 kr
inklusive lunch.
BILJETTER: Dillbergs
Bokhandel och nortic.se
Strindberg
på Kalmar Teater är ett samarbete mellan
Kultur- och fritidsförvaltningen i Kalmar
kommun,
Högskolan för scen och musik vid
Göteborgs Universitet, Länsmusiken i Kalmar
län, Kalmar Teaterförening
och
Byteatern.
Kontakter:
Kjell
Lindström, Länsmusiken i Kalmar län, 070-654
00 31
Ulf Bexell, Kalmar Teaterförening,
070-402 65 74
Argentina
La
compañía Teatral A16pies interpretará una
obra de August Strindberg
En
esta obra, el autor ha intentado imitar la
forma inconsecuente, aunque
transparentemente
lógica de un sueño.
Todo puede suceder, todo es posible y
probable.
Perspectiva Sur 15.5.14
El
próximo viernes 16 de mayo la compañía
Teatral A16pies interpretará la obra
"Sueño",
basada en la obra de August
Strindberg y adaptada para la ocasión por la
dramaturga María del Carmen Sánchez.
Con
la dirección de Roberto Aguirre, el
espectáculo comenzará a desarrollarse a
partir de las 21
en el Salón Auditorio
del Centro Cultural Municipal "León F.
Rigolleau", ubicado en calle 15 Nº 5675,
con entradas anticipadas por valor de 30
pesos (20 pesos con Cédula de Identidad
Ciudadana).
Las mismas podrán adquirirse
hasta el viernes de 9 a 19 en el Complejo
Municipal "El Patio",
situado en calle
149 e/15 y 15A, Berazategui.
ANÁLISIS DE LA OBRA
Comedia onírica: En esta obra, el autor ha
intentado imitar la forma inconsecuente,
aunque transparentemente lógica de un sueño.
Todo puede suceder, todo es posible y
probable. No existen ni el tiempo ni el
sitio; sobre una base insignificante de
realidad,
la imaginación teje,
entrelazando nuevas formas; mezcla de
recuerdos, experiencias, fantasías libres,
incongruencias e improvisaciones.
Lea la nota completa en la edición
papel.
Suscríbase al 4257-1182 y reciba
el ejemplar en su casa por $ 60 mensuales.
Link:
http://www.perspectivasur.com/2/nota_1.php?noticia_id=38503
USA, Chicago (ILL)
A
Q&A With Larry Yando, a Name You Should Know
in Chicago Theatre
If all
goes as planned, the stalwart actor will
play three of the most crotchety
old
cusses in literature by the end of this
year.
By Zac Thompson
Chicago, 13
May 2014
If all goes as planned,
by the end of this year Chicago theater
stalwart Larry Yando will have achieved the
crotchety trifecta,
playing three of the
most quarrelsome old cusses in literature
back-to-back-to-back.
In the fall, he’ll
take on King Lear—the Mt. Everest of
English-speaking drama—at Chicago
Shakespeare Theater,
before reprising
his role as Ebenezer Scrooge in Goodman
Theatre’s annual production of A Christmas
Carol.
First, though, comes Edgar, the
ferociously cantankerous military captain
locked in eternal combat
with his
unhappy wife in The Dance of Death, August
Strindberg’s uncompromising 1900 portrait of
marital strife and spiritual torment.
The U.S. premiere of a new adaptation of the
play, by Irish dramatist Conor McPherson, is
currently getting a blistering production.
It’s under the direction of Henry
Wishcamper, at Writers Theatre’s space at
Books on Vernon in Glencoe.
Yando joined
us recently to talk about his upcoming
roles.
Read more:
http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/May-2014/Performer-of-the-Month/
Deutschland, Berlin
Ehe am Abgrund
Berliner Morgenpost, 13.05.14
Geht der Ehe die Liebe aus, bleibt oft
nur noch der Hass. So zumindest schildert
August Strindberg den Kampf der Geschlechter
in
"Der Totentanz". 1905 uraufgeführt,
gilt das Stück als Urmodell aller Ehedramen.
Eine düstere Beziehungshölle, die
menschliche
Abgründe zeigt.
Kapitän
Edgar und seine Frau Alice leben seit 25
Jahren völlig isoliert in einem Festungsturm
auf einer entlegenen Insel.
Sie lassen
keine Gelegenheit aus, sich verbal und
seelisch zu zerfleischen, können aber
dennoch nicht voneinander lassen.
Die
Schauspieler Anette Daugardt und Uwe Neumann
haben in ihrer Inszenierung die
Machtverhältnisse umgedreht.
Patriarch
Edgar heißt hier Eddy und ist eine moderne
Geschäftsfrau. Alice indes ist der
erfolglose Schauspieler Al,
der als
Hausmann bei den Kindern geblieben ist.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/top-bmlive/article127933759/Ehe-am-Abgrund.html
Bangladesh
Munier Choudhury Theatre Fest ends
By Saurav Dey
The Daily Star,
May 13, 2014
A three-day theatre fest
commemorating Munier Choudhury concluded at
the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh
Shilpakala Academy (BSA) on Sunday evening.
Theatre and Film Department of BSA organised
the festival tiled “Shaheed Munier Choudhury
Natya Utsab 2014” from May 9 to 11 to
remember Munier Choudhury, a trendsetter of
modern Bangla theatre.
The festival
featured five new productions from the
theatre departments of five universities:
Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University,
Rajshahi University, Chittagong University
and Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam
University. All of the plays staged during
the fest were written and translated by
Munier Choudhury.
The festival opened on
Friday with the Theatre and Performance
Studies Department of Dhaka University
staging “Manush.” Written against the
backdrop of 1947's communal riots, the play
presents a rare example of communal harmony.
On the second day, Theatre and Theatrics
Department of Jahangirnagar University
staged their production “Ek Tala Dotala”
while Theatre and Performance Studies
Department of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam
University staged “Mukhora Romoni'r
Boshikoron” – the Bangla adaptation of
Shakespearean comedy “The Taming of the
Shrew.”
On the concluding day, Dramatics
Department of Chittagong University and
Theatre and Music Department of Rajshahi
University staged “Jonok” and “Moharaj”
respectively. “Jonok”, the Bangla adaptation
of August Strindberg's play “The Father”,
revolves around the conflict of interest
between retired army personnel Captain Adolf
and his wife Laura over raising their
daughter Bertha, depicting the power of a
woman's will in a male-dominated society.
Laura, a suppressed woman goes against all
the conventions of the society and his
overpowering atheist husband so that she can
raise Bertha the way she wants. Laura traps
her husband gradually, leading him to
insanity and ultimately death, to win the
decision over their daughter's future.
However, the play somewhat victimises men
and sheds light on the negativity of women
and their manipulating power.
Directed by
Farzana Afrin Rupa, the play boasts
powerful, witty dialogues and the acting of
characterisation of the Captain was
commendable. All the characters on stage
were lively, and the minimalistic stage
design was ideal for the Experimental
Theatre Hall.
Link:
http://bd.thedailystar.net/entertainment/munier-choudhury-theatre-fest-ends-23807
Deutschland
Rottweil
Ein verrücktes Fräulein strengt
alle mächtig an
Von
Armin Schulz
Schwarzwälder-Bote,
11.05.2014
Rottweil. Aber
Fräulein Julie, wer wird denn gleich? Ja,
wer wird denn gleich mit dem nächstbesten
Knecht ins Bett steigen. Und wer wird
deshalb freiwillig aus dem Leben scheiden,
Fräulein Julie. So was tut man nicht, ist
nicht nötig. Zumindest heute. Und damals?
Es ist kein einfaches, nein es ist sogar ein
wirklich anstrengendes Leben, das der
schwedische Dramaturg August Strindberg 1888
in eine Tragödie gegossen und mit dem das
Zimmertheater am Freitagabend Premiere
gefeiert hat. Strindberg war damals Ende
dreißig, hatte schon Vieles erlebt und
durchgemacht. Das schlägt sich in seinen
Stücken nieder.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.rottweil-ein-verruecktes-fraeulein-strengt-alle-maechtig-an.abc2a4f2-703c-4c8b-b184-07c58c62a8ce.html
Brasil
Cultura
Christiane Tricerri sobe ao palco do Teatro
Municipal no sábado
regiaonoroeste, 08/05/2014
Fernandópolis - A consagrada atriz e
diretora Christiane Tricerri é a estrela da
montagem de “A Mais Forte”, do dramaturgo
sueco August Strindberg, cartaz deste
sábado, 10, às 20h, no Teatro Municipal
“Merciol Viscardi” (Avenida MiltonTerra
Verdi 420, Santa Helena). A entrada é
franca.
O espetáculo faz parte da
programação do Circuito Cultural Paulista,
em parceria com a Secretaria Municipal da
Cultura de Fernandópolis. Embora gratuitos,
os ingressos deverão ser retirados na
bilheteria do teatro com uma hora de
antecedência.
Leia mais:
http://www.regiaonoroeste.com/portal/materias.php?id=57025
Canada, Toronto
Mies
Julie Is a Powerhouse Production
This adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss
Julie set in post-Apartheid South Africa is
easily the most explosive production on
stage right now.
By Carly Maga
Torontoist, May 8, 2014
Harbourfront
Centre, Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay
West)
Daily, 8 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
May 8–10
[4,5 out of 5 stars]
On
Tuesday night, it was a clear and calm
evening by the waterfront—a little warm,
even. It was a hint of what (we’re hoping)
is in store for us this summer, and created
a serene and restful atmosphere.
That
feeling was promptly destroyed by the
production currently playing at the
Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre, Yael
Farber’s Mies Julie. It’s angering,
devastating, and terrifying—but in the best
way possible.
South African artist
Farber, former playwright in residence at
Toronto’s Nightwood Theatre and head of
directing at Montreal’s National Theatre
School, has had huge international success
as writer and director of this Strindberg
adaptation, which changes the story’s
setting from an estate in 1888 Sweden to a
farm in the barren Karoo desert 20 years
after apartheid. It received rave reviews
during the 2012 Edinburgh Festival and
stints in Cape Town, London, New York, and
most recently, Vancouver. Its brief run in
Toronto provides audiences with the welcome
opportunity to see a lean production
actually live up to the term “powerhouse.”
Read more:
http://torontoist.com/?post_type=event&p=316167&preview=true&eo_month=2014-06
Canada, Toronto
Mies
Julie, a tale of tension that erupts with a
thunderclap: Review
South
African adaptation of August Strindberg
classic, at Enwave Theatre until May 10,
explodes with erotic intensity, but its
potency starts to fade in the final stretch.
By Richard Ouzounian
The Star, Wed
May 07 2014
Mies Julie By August
Strindberg.
Adapted and directed by Yael
Farber.
Until May 10 at the Enwave
Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
3 out of 4 stars
Brute force is a
quality one doesn’t see too often in the
theatre and with good reason, as the
production of Mies Julie that opened at the
Enwave Theatre on Tuesday night eloquently
proved.
This South African adaptation of
August Strindberg’s potent hand grenade of a
play, Miss Julie, has proved successful
around the world and it’s easy to see why.
Yael Farber’s decision to set the action in
the Karoo region of South Africa years after
the end of apartheid yields huge
metaphorical benefits. The class struggle
between mistress and servant that fuelled
the original script pales alongside the
battle between a black houseboy and the
white daughter of the house who has grown up
beside him.
Read more:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2014/05/07/mies_julie_a_tale_of_tension_that_erupts_with_a_thunderclap_review.html
Pressmeddelande
Dödsdansen
av August Strindberg
MyNewsDesk 2014-05-07
Sommarpremiär på Skottorps slott, Halland, 5
juli 2014
Stockholmspremiär på
Strindbergs Intima teater, 28 augusti 2014
Strindbergs världsberömda
äktenskapsdrama DÖDSDANSEN repeteras just nu
på Strindbergs Intima teater i Stockholm.
GÖREL CRONA, JOHANNES BROST och HENRIK
NORMAN intar scenen i de klassiska rollerna
som skådespelerskan Alice, artillerikaptenen
Edgar och vännen Kurt. JANNE SCHAFFER står
för musiken.
I tjugofem år har
makarna plågat varandra där de bor isolerade
på en befästningsö. Äktenskapet är
bottenfruset. När kusinen Kurt kommer på
besök från Amerika bryts dödläget och
helvetet kommer i dagen. Strindbergs
magnifika ”danse macabre” bjuder på stor
tragedi, humor och äktenskapsgnabb i den
högre skolan.
Läs mer:
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kulturdirekt/pressreleases/doedsdansen-av-august-strindberg-992562
Äv:
http://skottorpsslott.se/dodsdansen-pa-skottorp/
Deutschland, Berlin
Premiere im Stadtbad
Strindbergs Drama
"Totentanz" in einer modernen Version
Von Karla Menge
Berliner-Woche
05.05.2014
Steglitz. Der
"Totentanz" von August Strindberg ist das
Urbild aller Ehedramen. In einer neuen
Inszenierung im Stadtbad Steglitz,
Bergstraße 90, werden jedoch die
Perspektiven gewechselt.
Offizier Edgar
lebt mit seiner Frau Alice seit fast 25
Jahren in einem Festungsturm auf einer
einsamen Insel. In völliger Isolation. Aus
der einstigen Liebe ist mittlerweile
abgrundtiefer Hass geworden, sie bekämpfen
sich, wo sie nur können.
Was geschieht,
wenn man die Machtverhältnisse umdreht,
zeigen Anette Daugardt und Uwe Neumann in
einer eigenen Interpretation des
Strindbergschen Stoffes. Aus dem Patriarchen
Edgar wird eine moderne Geschäftsfrau, die
Eddy heißt, und aus der unterdrückten Alice
wird im Stadtbad der erfolglose Schauspieler
Al, der zu Hause bei den Kindern geblieben
ist.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.berliner-woche.de/nachrichten/bezirk-steglitz-zehlendorf/steglitz/artikel/41426-strindbergs-drama-totentanz-in-einer-modernen-version/
Die Premiere ist am Donnerstag, 8. Mai,
20 Uhr. Weitere Aufführungen sind am 9. und
10. Mai und danach bis zum 14 Juni
donnerstags bis sonnabends. Beginn ist immer
um 20 Uhr. Der Eintritt kostet 20 Euro,
ermäßigt 15 Euro. Kartenreservierung unter
54 77 31 18 oder 79 74 80 28,
E-Mail:
mail@stadtbad-steglitz.de. Weitere
Informationen auf
www.stadtbad-steglitz.de.
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UK
The Last
Alchemist in Paris
By Simon Cotton
ChemistryWorld, 29 April
2014
Lars Öhrström
Oxford
University Press
2014 | 257pp | £16.99
ISBN 9780199661091
Lars Öhrström
is probably most familiar to Chemistry World
readers through his podcasts. This splendid
book comprises stories about 22 chemical
elements and their compounds. Some episodes
may be familiar to readers, but there is
usually a new angle, whether it’s the cause
of the Hindenberg disaster, the Hall–Héroult
process for making aluminium or the Norsk
Hydro plant at Ryukan and the heavy water it
produced, which was potentially vital to
German attempts to produce a nuclear weapon
in the second world war.
I
personally can recall the heroism of Captain
Kurt Carlsen, who stayed aboard his stricken
ship, the Flying Enterprise, for nearly a
fortnight in January 1952. At the time we
were certainly not informed about its cargo
of zirconium, and its secret purpose.
Elsewhere, the author relates August
Strindberg’s attempts at alchemy, and
destroys the urban legend that tin plague
caused the disintegration of tin buttons on
the trousers of Napoleon’s Grande Armée as
it retreated from Moscow in 1812, supposedly
causing a collapse of morale (if not of the
trousers).
Read more:
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/04/last-alchemist-paris-lars-ohrstrom
USA
Critic’s
Choice:
‘Dance of Death’ cackles with
life
By Tom Witom
MySuburbanLife, Tuesday, April 29,
GLENCOE – Seeing Conor McPherson’s
impressive 2012 adaptation of Swedish
playwright August Strindberg’s explosive
play, “The Dance of Death,” prompts a search
to find new synonyms to describe this
ferociously gripping work.
Strindberg’s
groundbreaking play, first staged in 1905,
packs quite a wallop in its presentation at
Writers Theatre under the expert direction
of Henry Wishcamper.
In his version,
McPherson, a celebrated Irish playwright
himself with “Port Authority,” “The
Seafarer” and “Shining City” among his
successes, highlights the play’s lyricism
and ferocity mixed with caustic humor.
Read more:
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2014/04/29/critics-choice/al6v9ey/
UK
Best plays of
all time
The Telegraph
selects the best plays of all time
The Telegraph, 28 Apr 2014
The
Bacchae
Euripides (405 BC)
In his
last play, written in exile and performed
posthumously, Euripides nailed the whole
genre of tragedy, at once celebrating its
context (a Bacchic festival) and spelling
out the consequences of being ruthlessly
sane when a god bids otherwise.
Oedipus the King
Sophocles (after 430 BC)
The audience knows what’s going to happen;
but Oedipus’s struggle with the terrible
truths that await him remind us that careful
language, rich in irony and exposively
timed, can make us scream as much as
on-stage violence can.
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe (c1592)
This play
changed drama forever, by fusing the
simplicity of morality plays with
fashionably sumptuous language. As a result,
the message can seem murky: should you avoid
selling your soul, or can it look a little
glamorous by the end?
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen (1882)
A lot can happen in a
night: revelations about syphilis; the
symbolic burning of an orphanage and, above
all, blasts from the past. This last is
ineluctable, the play suggests, and its
messages about guilt and fate remain
unsettling.
[...]
Miss
Julie
August Strindberg (1888)
Read the rest:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10631419/Best-plays-of-all-time.html
Levande Harriet i dramat med August
Av Andrea Grapengiesser
Kristianstadsbladet, 28 april 2014
”Fröken Harriet”. I Kristianstadsgruppen
Teater Buzkas femte pjäs hamnar vi mitt i
August Strindbergs och Harriet Bosses
kärleksrelation, full av höga tankar,
vardagsbekymmer och bråk. Teaterskribent
Andrea Grapengiesser såg lördagens
Sverigepremiär av ”Fröken Harriet” på
Kristianstads Teater.
Allt börjar med
dans, musiken kommer från en röd
trattgrammofon, kärleken är mjuk och
trevande. August ger sin Harriet rosor med
törne. Miljön tar oss till ett konstnärshem
vid sekelskiftet, man rör sig fritt i
Europa, diskuterar vad som spelas på scener
i Paris och Berlin, vill förändra teatern
med ny dramatik och nya roller, Dramaten är
gammalt och trist. ”Fröken Harriet” handlar
om en kärleksrelation mellan en etablerad
författare och en ung skådespelare kring det
förra sekelskiftet. Här finns visioner,
ambitioner, ångest och försoning.
Läs mer:
http://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/kultur/article2145706/Levande-Harriet-i-dramat-med-August.html
Teater
"Fröken Harriet"
Manus:
Gabrielle Rozsaffy.
Regi: Jan Bäcklin.
I rollerna: Daniel Mårs och Åsa Borglin. Med
Teater Buzka.
Premiär på Kristianstads
Teater, 26/4
Canada, Montreal
Theatre review:
The struggle didn't end
after apartheid
South
African lovers are doomed by the past and
the present in the brilliant Mies Julie
By Pat Donnelly
The Montreal Gazette
April 25, 2014
MONTREAL —
North Americans tend to think of South
Africa as a once-troubled nation whose ills
were instantly cured by the rise of Nelson
Mandela and the fall of apartheid in 1994.
The reality, of course, is far more
complicated. Twenty years after the system
that condemned non-whites to second-class
citizenship ended, negative effects linger.
In her internationally acclaimed adaptation
of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, South
African auteur director Yaël Farber adds the
burning questions of race and ancestral land
claims to a fierce battle of gender and
class. Set in modern times in the remote
Karoo district of South Africa and retitled
Mies Julie, the 19th-century classic has
been geared up to a searing level of erotic
intensity.
The two lead performers, Hilda
Cronje as Julie and Bongile Mantsai as John,
move around each other like stalking
leopards in this theatrical dance of love
and hate, now playing at Place des Arts.
They are stylized in their gestures, yet
authentic in their conversation, and their
sensual connection sizzles.
Read
more:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Theatre+review+struggle+didn+after+apartheid/9775924/story.html
USA
Awards
Profile: Miss Julie
By Sam Coffey
Awards Circuit, April
24, 2014
Directed By: Liv Ullmann
Written By:
Liv Ullmann
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Colin
Farrell, Samantha Morton
Synopsis: Over
the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh
in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the
Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her
father’s valet to seduce her…
Why It
Could Succeed:
The Chastain Factor. 2014
is going to be a mammoth year for Jessica
Chastain.
Read more:
http://www.awardscircuit.com/2014/04/24/awards-profile-miss-julie/
Rädda översättning till
minoritetsspråk
Försvagat språkskydd hotar lagstadgad
mångfald
Av Hans Caldaras - Musiker,
författare och skådespelare
Annika
Wennström - Författare
Katarina Kieri -
Författare
Paula Grossman - Lärare och
redaktör
Aftonbladet Kultur 2014-04-23
DEBATT I ett unikt projekt har bokförlaget
Podium översatt och gett ut August
Strindberg på fyra nationella
minoritetsspråk. För första gången med
originaltexten som grund till romani chib,
jiddisch, meänkieli och nordsamiska.
Översättningsprojektet är historiskt och
saknar motstycke i Sverige.
Arbetssättet
har varierat utifrån språkets
förutsättningar. Till exempel är alla fem
vanligast förekommande dialekter av romani
chib i Sverige företrädda med varsin novell
ur Giftas I-II.
Läs mer:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article18765612.ab
Italia
Recensione: L’organista romantico, di August
Strindberg
Di
Elisabetta Narese
MeLoLeggo, aprile, 2014
Il breve
romanzo “L’organista Romantico”, romanzo del
1888 dello svedese August Strindberg, si
svolge nella Svezia dell’800 tra le città di
Trosa, Stoccolma e Räno.
Negli anni ’50
Alrik Lundstedt, musicista sognatore,
abbandona la piccola città di Trosa per
salpare per l’avventura della sua vita,
andare a Stoccolma ed entrare al
Conservatorio della capitale per diventare
un importante musicista. Per il giovane
Alrik realtà e fantasia sono un tutt’uno;
egli vede nei luoghi paesaggi immaginari, ma
estremamente vividi: ogni elemento della
natura richiama qualcos’altro, e tutto è
energia e musica. La natura e la musica come
due facce della stessa medaglia, entrambe
rimandano a quel campo di battaglia che è la
vita. La musica è il perno di tutto, tutto
ruota attorno alla musica.
A Stoccolma
sente una nuova vita, un nuovo entusiasmo
andargli incontro; l’atmosfera aperta, la
stima del Professore al Conservatorio, le
amicizie, gli danno fiducia in se stesso, e
portano la sua immaginazione e le sue
ambizioni a livelli altissimi.
Leggete il sito:
http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=it&tl=sv&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meloleggo.it%2Frecensione-lorganista-romantico-di-august-strindberg_763%2F&edit-text=
Österreich
Filmpräsentation: Auf den Spuren von
Strindberg
Von
Michaela Primessnig aus Perg
Tips,
22.04.2014
SAXEN/GREIN.
Am kommenden
Sonntag, 27. April, wird im Stadtkino Grein
der Film „Die Welt für sich und die Welt für
mich“ präsentiert. August Strindbergs Texte
begleiten eine Reise durch den Strudengau.
Der österreichische in Berlin lebende
Regisseur Bernhard Sallmann machte sich vor
drei Jahren im Strudengau auf Spurensuche
von August Strindberg. Daraus entstand der
Film „Die Welt für sich und die Welt für
mich“. Darin verdichtet der Regisseur die
Landschaft mit der Stimme des Dichters.
Mittendrin die Donau, deren ruhig fließendes
Wasser den Rhythmus der Strindbergschen
Prosa zum Klingen bringt. Die Natur wird so
zur Metapher für die Befindlichkeiten und
seelischen Zustände August Strindbergs. Die
gesprochenen Textfragmente stammen aus den
Büchern „Kloster“ und „Inferno“. Der Film
wird beim diesjährigen Linzer Filmfestival
Crossing Europe und im Stadtkino Grein
gezeigt. In Grein werden der Regisseur
Bernhard Sallmann und der Kurator des
Strindbergmuseums Saxen Friedrich Buchmayr
eine kurze Einführung und
Erläuterungen zum Film geben. Die
Präsentation findet am kommenden Sonntag,
27. April, um 10.30 Uhr statt. Der Eintritt
zur Veranstaltung beträgt 5 Euro.
Link:
http://www.tips.at/news/grein/kultur/288305-filmpraesentation-auf-den-spuren-von-strindberg
Strindberg på meänkieli
Tornedalsförfattaren Mona Mörtlund har
nyligen kommit ut med en bok, och inte
vilken bok som helst. Det är August
Strindbergs "Ett drömspel" som hon översatt
till meänkieli.
Av Tova Nilsson
SR P4, Norrbotten, 22
april
Boken ingår som en av de böcker
som översatts till de nationella
minoritetsspråken av förlaget Podium.
–
Jag hade inte läst så mycket av Strindberg
innan och jag hade inte läst "Ett drömspel".
Men nu när jag har läst den tycker jag
jättemycket om den, säger hon.
På
tisdagmorgonen berättade Mona Mörtlund i P4
Norrbotten om arbetet med översättningen av
en bok som skrevs för över 100 år sedan.
På meänkieli heter boken Uninäytelmä. Ett
drömspel finns nu på nordsamiska och
meänkieli.
Lyssna:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=98&artikel=5842359
Canada, Montreal
Worlds collide in South African tale Mies
Julie
‘Just struck me
as having a genius narrative spine,’ says
Montreal director Yaël Farber
By Pat
Donnelly
The Gazette, April 22, 2014
MONTREAL —
Theatre
director Yaël Farber has returned from India
just in time for the première of her hit
production of Mies Julie at the Cinquième
Salle of Place des Arts.
Based on Miss
Julie, by Swedish playwright August
Strindberg, Mies Julie is set in South
Africa and uses the Afrikaans translation of
Strindberg’s title. It was launched in South
Africa, then played the 2012 Edinburgh
Festival, where it won the Best of Edinburgh
award.
Mies Julie has been travelling
around the world gathering accolades ever
since. The Canadian leg of the tour began
last month in Vancouver and will continue in
Toronto, after Montreal.
In India, Farber
was overseeing the tour of her latest play
Nirbhaya, which deals directly with the
notorious Delhi gang rape and murder of
2012. Thanks to a successful Kickstarter
campaign, Farber and company were able to
take that play to several cities in India,
including Delhi. This was a bold move, to
say the least. But there’s nothing timid
about Farber’s style.
Why Miss Julie? “I
come from an extraordinary country, and I’m
always looking for ways to articulate that,”
Farber replied in a recent interview.
Read more:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/theatre/Worlds+collide+South+African+tale+Mies+Julie/9757746/story.html
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Writers Theatre does The Dance of Death
By Tony Adler
Reader, 04.16.14
It's
practically impossible to miss the parallels
between August Strindberg's The Dance of
Death and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf—and somebody's sure to point
them out to you if by chance you do. I know
I've found the resemblance noted everywhere
I've looked, from Wikipedia to the program
notes for Writers Theatre's fierce
production of the Strindberg play, built
around a new adaptation by Irish playwright
Conor McPherson.
Like Albee's George and
Martha, Strindberg's Edgar and Alice are a
married couple in the throes of mortal
combat. "Dysfunction" is way too mild a term
for the workings of their relationship. As
with George, Edgar looked like a good bet in
his early days. But his career has come up
snake eyes, and now he's sinking into
senescence with nothing to ease the way but
alcohol and a finely tuned cussedness. Like
Martha, Alice took the bet on Edgar when she
was a sought-after young thing. Losing both
bet and youth hasn't been fun. The two of
them live together in a tangle of rage and
dependence, united only by their willingness
to tear a new one in the psyche of anyone
foolish enough to get between them.
Read more:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/04/16/writers-theatre-does-the-dance-of-death
USA, New York (NY)
August Strindberg Rep to Present New
Adaptation of TO DAMASCUS, PART 1, 4/18-5/11
By BWW News Desk
Broadway World Com,
Off-Off Broadway, April 16 2014
An
author's spiritual downfall and redemption
presents many mysteries in one of
Strindberg's greatest plays, reset into
Harlem, 1962. August Strindberg Repertory
presents a new adaptation of "TO DAMASCUS,
PART 1" by August Strindberg, directed by
Robert Greer and running April 18 to May 11,
2014.
"To Damascus, Part 1" (1889-1901)
is a forerunner of theatrical expressionism
and a true theatrical representation of a
dream, foreshadowing styles to be seen later
in Strindberg's "The Dream Play" (1902) and
"The Ghost Sonata" (1907).
The Stranger,
an author in mid-career, has been living
from hand-to-mouth, desperate for funds from
his publisher, when he runs off with another
man's wife. His conscience punishes him for
this and other matters dating back to his
childhood.
Read more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/August-Strindberg-Rep-to-Present-New-Adaptation-of-TO-DAMASCUS-PART-1-418-511-20140416#.U1ow3seZ3yw
USA, California
A Noise Within Announces 2014-2015
Season
By staff
Pasadena Now, Tuesday, April 15, 2014
A
Noise Within, led by Producing Artistic
Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia
Rodriguez-Elliott, announces its 23rd season
of classic theater in Southern California.
Informed by the climate of social and
economic upheaval in which everyone lives,
the season’s theme—reflected in a
kaleidoscopic palette of plays—is
‘Revolution.’
“We have always crafted
overarching themes for our repertory
seasons,” says Geoff Elliott, “but none has
presented itself as organically and
viscerally as this year’s.” Julia
Rodriguez-Elliott reinforces this notion,
adding, “In many ways, the idea of
‘Revolution,’ had entered our collective
consciousness in ways that all but dared us
not to embrace it. As a director, I am
especially energized by the concept of
‘disorderly conduct’—both because it appears
as a theme in every one of these plays, and
because wherever we look, it is rearing its
head in the forms of civic, social, and
political unrest.”
The company’s
revolutionary season unfurls this fall with
Shakespeare’s The Tempest, followed by The
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde,
and The Dance of Death (Part 1) by August
Strindberg.
Read more:
http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/a-noise-within-announces-2014-2015-season
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Writers
Theatre Presents The Dance of Death By
August Strindberg In a new version by Conor
McPherson Through July 20, 2014
By
Michael Roberts
Showbiz Chicago, 15 April
2014
Writers Theatre presents The Dance of Death
by August Strindberg, in a new version by
Conor McPherson and directed by Henry
Wishcamper. The production runs
April 1 – July 20, 2014 at 664 Vernon
Avenue, Glencoe.
August
Strindberg’s masterpiece tells the
deliciously venomous story of a crumbling
marriage—laced with black comedy and biting
humor. As their 25th anniversary approaches,
military captain, Edgar, and his wife,
Alice, face off in a fierce battle of wills.
Their sparring proves both harrowing and
hilarious, amplified by the voice of
celebrated playwright Conor McPherson (Port
Authority, The Seafarer, Shining City,
Dublin Carol). His adaptation brings
lyricism and ferocity to the story of the
tyrannical captain and his manipulative
wife, and the “innocent” Kurt who stumbles
into their midst and quickly finds himself
ensnared in the couple’s wicked game
Read more:
http://showbizchicago.com/2014/04/15/writers-theatre-presents-the-dance-of-death-by-august-strindberg-in-a-new-version-by-conor-mcpherson-through-july-20-2014/
Stopp för böcker på minoritetsspråk
Östgöta Correspondenten, Stockholm 15
apr 2014
Äntligen är det synd om människorna även
på meänkieli, nordsamiska och jiddisch. Men
med utgivningen av Strindbergs "Ett
drömspel" tvingas det ideella förlaget
Podium av allt att döma avsluta sin
utgivning på minoritetsspråken.
Hade "Ett
drömspel" funnits på meänkieli när
författaren Katarina Kieri började skolan
1972 hade mycket blivit annorlunda. Nu har
hon skrivit förordet till den färska
översättningen, men under hennes barndom var
meänkieli ett osynligt språk. Medan hennes
klasskamrater gick på hemspråk i finska var
det otänkbart att Katarina Kieri skulle få
lektioner i tornedalsfinska.
Läs mer:
http://www.corren.se/kultur/stopp-for-bocker-pa-minoritetssprak-6893904-artikel.aspx
Canada, British Colombia
Exciting, Erotic Ride Through
Old Theatre Classic
Blogg by Michael Groberman, Vancouver
Theatre Critic
Huffpost British Colombia,
04/12/2014
This new
production of Miss Julie, set in present-day
South Africa, may be as shocking as the
original was in 1888 Sweden. Where the
sexual congress between servant and master
was quietly revealed in nuanced language
back in Sweden, here the two actors appear
to be copulating in a frenzy of desire right
there, before your eyes, on the kitchen
table. Welcome to Mies Julie, directed and
choreographed by Yael Farber.
The touring
production at the Cultch re-examines August
Strindberg's Miss Julie by updating the
story for a modern audience. The stodgy 1888
Swedish play was once revolutionary, but now
it is an unworkable museum piece. This
production by the Baxter Theatre Centre at
the University of Cape Town and the South
African State Theatre provides new life to a
dusty classic. In a sense, Miss Julie has
returned from the grave.
Contemporary
South Africa is an ideal environment in
which to re-stage this classic because it
allows the fundament power imbalance between
the two main characters to be maintained.
Julie (Hilda Cronje) is the spoiled and
bored adult daughter of a rich estate owner
and John (Bongile Mantsai) is her father's
financially dependent servant.
Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/michael-groberman/mies-julie-an-erotic-ride-vancouver_b_5097710.html
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Not one misstep in Writers’ ‘Dance’
By Hedy Weiss Theater
Chicago
Sun-Times, April 10, 2014
‘The Dance
Of Death’
Highly recommended
When:
Through July 20
Where: Writers Theatre at
Books on Vernon, 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe
Tickets : $35-$70
Info:
(847)242-242-6000;
writerstheatre.org
Run time: 2 hours and 15 minutes, one
intermission
Every second of the
Writers Theatre production of “The Dance of
Death” is worth the price of admission. But
you should take a seat in the company’s
intensely intimate bookstore space for one
very specific reason alone: To watch actor
Larry Yando perform his demented and
hilarious interpretive dance to “The Entry
March of the Boyars,” a soulful military
mashup that brilliantly captures the hidden
charm of his irascible character, Edgar.
In this truly priceless moment, you also get
the finest indication of why Edgar’s wife,
the fiery and still beautiful Alice (Shannon
Cochran, in perhaps the finest and freest
performance of her distinguished career),
has stayed with him for 25 years. Somewhere
in that “dance” unquestionably lies the
“love” aspect in a love-hate marital
relationship that has pushed many of the
conventional boundaries to the breaking
point.
Read more:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/weiss/26762306-421/not-one-misstep-in-writers-dance.html
USA, Minot (ND)
What's Happening in Arts & Entertainment
4-10-14
Minot Daily News,
April 10, 2014
Minot
State University Theatre Arts Program
presents an adaptation of August
Strindberg's "Miss Julie" through Saturday
at 7:30 p.m. in the MSU Black Box Theater.
Doors will open at 7 p.m. For tickets,
contact the MSU theater box office at
858-3172. Admission is $6 for adults, and $5
for seniors and students under 18. MSU
students, faculty and staff are free with
current MSU ID. This production contains
language and themes that may not be suitable
for all ages. Mature audiences are advised.
Due to limited seating, reservations are
strongly encouraged.
For questions,
contact Smith at 858-3865 or
aili.smith@minotstateu.edu.
Link:
http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/594720/What-s-Happening-in-Arts---Entertainment-4-10-14.html?nav=5001
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Unhappily ever after in unsparing
'Dance of Death'
Theater review: "The Dance of Death" by
Writers Theatre at Books on Vernon ★★★½
By Chris Jones
The Chicago Tribune,
April 10, 2014
Drinking in the stunning incongruity of
exiting an intensely intimate Writers
Theatre production of August Strindberg's
"The Dance of Death" — an impassioned, fever
dream of an apocalyptic play, wherein a
husband and wife struggle violently and
endlessly for dominance — and finding myself
in sleepy downtown Glencoe, wherein the
sidewalks are truly rolled up by 10 at night
and nothing more dangerous than a stationary
store lurks, I turned to the fellow audience
member beside me on the lonely street.
"You really have to hand it to them, doing
Strindberg in Glencoe, it's really a unique
thing," I said, uninvited, in an
uncharacteristically chatty post-show mode,
being as the play, which is rarely seen, had
done some tricks to my head.
"Oh, there's
plenty of Strindberg in Glencoe," he
replied, quick as a flash. "You just don't
see it."
Indeed, who knows what lurks
behind those faux-tudor North Shore facades?
Read more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-dance-death-writers-review,0,3846497.column
Blogg:
Boomer
Beefcake and Bonding,
(Combating
heterosexism since 2011)
August Strindberg: Nude Statues
and Dream Visions
By Jeffery Dennis,
Apr 8, 2014
Growing up in Rock Island, where most
people were of Scandinavian ancestry, I
heard constantly about Vikings, runestones,
Peer Gynt, Knut Hamsun, Hans Christian
Anderson, lukefisk, The Elder Edda, and
especially August Strindberg (1849-1912),
the Swedish playwright who explored
subconscious drives and secret desires.
You'd expect a lot of same-sex interest
among those secret desires, but mostly there
are heterosexual longings and battles of the
sexes.
The Father (1887): a
father-daughter relationship goes wrong.
The Dance of Death (1900): a heterosexual
marriage gone wrong.
The Ghost Sonata
(1907): A young student discovers that the
girl he likes is not what she seems.
Read more:
Canada, Vancouver (BC)
play Review
Mies Julie: Tension and
trauma in a tale well told
By Marsha Lederman
The Globe
and Mail, Tuesday, Apr. 08 2014
The sense of impending doom is immediate
as you walk into the smoky theatre;
suggestions of the calamity to come pulsing
through the subtle strains of a musical
soundscape. There is a sense even before the
start that things are not going to go well
in this kitchen.
An older woman
identified in the program as Ancestor (the
master Xhosa musician Tandiwe Nofirst
Lungisa Ukhokho), dressed in a white, partly
plastic dress, her black face whitened with
makeup and her stride slow, makes her way
around the stage perimeter, carrying what
appears to be either a weapon or an
instrument. It’s the latter, and her playing
and chanting are powerful; she is singing
words we can’t understand, but we recognize
this as a lament.
Read more:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/theatre-reviews/mies-julie-tension-and-trauma-in-a-tale-well-told/article17872188/
En misommarnattsvampyr
Både August
Strindberg och Ingemar Bergman dyker upp
Av David Richter
SR,
Kulturnytt, 8 april
Häromåret året satte Malmö stadsteater upp
Ibsens "Gengångare" som zombie-teater. Nu
sätter man upp Shakespeares "En
midsommarnattsdröm" som vampyr-teater. Det
är tyska regissören Anna Bergmann som vänder
upp och ner på Shakespelare, och ensemblen
består av svenska och tyska skådisar.
I
den här versionen utspelar sig allt på en
klubb, som vampyren Oberon och hans Titania
driver. Av hantverkarna är alla strukna utom
Botten vävare kvar och han är varulv på
nätterna. I baren jobbar August Strindberg,
Puck är en docka och kan transformeras till
olika personer. En är Ingmar Bergman.
Kärleksparen finns kvar, men Helena en man
som vill vara kvinna. Det mesta är med andra
ord omgjort i den här versionen.
Läs/lyssna:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=5831199
Konstnärernas favorithotell kan säljas
Av Gustaf Tapper
Dagens
Industri, 2014-04-08
Carl Larsson, August Strindberg och
Julia Beck bodde där – och sedan 20 år kan
även dagens konstnärer eller författare resa
på stipendium till Hôtel Chevillon i byn
Grez-sur-Loing i Frankrike.
Men nu är
pengarna slut. Utan nya miljoner måste Hôtel
Chevillon säljas.
”Huvudspåret är att
försöka få in pengar, men får vi inte det så
ser vi ingen annan möjlighet än att sälja”,
säger Bo Myhrman, ordförande i stiftelsen
Grez-sur-Loing.
Den svenska stiftelsen
äger Hôtel Chevillon, som köptes 1989 och
renoverades. 1994 invigdes konstnärshemmet
av drottning Silvia. Sedan dess har svenska
konstnärer, författare och vetenskapsmän
rest hit på stipendium för att finna
inspiration – precis som deras företrädare
för 130 år sedan.
Läs mer:
http://www.di.se/artiklar/2014/4/7/konstnarernas-favorithotell-kan-saljas/
Hem med anor i gamla
Landala
Av Helena Joelsson
GP, 7 april
2014
Massor av böcker, musik och blommor
fyller det ombonade och bohemiskt charmiga
hemmet i Landala egnahem – området som firar
100 år i år.
Nybakade scones, hemgjord
plommonmarmelad och rejäla engelska tekoppar
står framdukade i köket på Kolonigatan 18. I
den öppna spisen sprakar en hemtrevlig brasa
och hunden Dizzy ligger bekvämt parkerad
under köksbordet. Man får känslan av att bli
bjuden på te i ett synnerligen hemtrevligt
hus i en pittoresk by på engelska
landsbygden, snarare än i ett grått
Göteborg.
Husen här på berget fyller
hundra år i år – något som verkligen är värt
att firas säger Barbro Fridén och Anders
Melchior. De har varit de bruna
egnahemshusen trogna sedan 32 år tillbaka.
Det var en minimal annons i Göteborgs-Posten
som 1982 fångade en av parets kompisars
uppmärksamhet. Paret bodde då i en
hyreslägenhet på Aschebergsgatan med två
småbarn och blev glatt överraskade när
kompisen ringde och berättade om annonsen.
[...]
– Här är för mycket böcker, säger
Barbro skämtsamt medan Anders fyller i här
är alldeles för mycket blommor. August
Strindberg är husguden och Anders samlar
Strindbergiana – hundratals böcker av och om
honom fyller det ombonade vardagsrummet.
– Jag vet inte exakt hur många volymer jag
har, men det är många. Strindbergs dramatik
hör till min absoluta favoritläsning. Här i
min läsfåtölj sitter jag och läser till sent
in på natten. Först efter sista promenaden
med Dizzy långt efter midnatt kryper jag
till kojs, säger Anders.
[...]
Länk:
http://www.gp.se/bostad/inredningarkitektur/1.2331978-hem-med-anor-i-gamla-landala
Shakespeare som
vampyrsaga
Av
Yvonne Erlandsson
Skånskan, 4 april 2014
NÖJE. När Shakespeares En
midsommarnattsdröm nu är tillbaka på Malmö
stadsteater blir det i en helt ny kostym.
Regissören Anna Bergmann har inspirerats av
tv-serien True Blood och av Jim
Jarmusch-filmen Only lovers left alive.
Oberon och Titania är alltså vampyrer.
Premiär blir det på Hipp den 11 april.
Ackompanjerade av sånger som Michael
Jacksons Thriller, Radioheads Creep och
Abba:s The winner takes it all träder
Shakespeares figurer in på scenen. I baren
In vein hänger också August Strindberg och
tycker synd om människorna. Botten får ensam
spela upp pjäsen i pjäsen, som Strindberg
refuserar.
Läs mer:
http://www.skanskan.se/article/20140404/NOJE/140409794/-/shakespeare-som-vampyrsaga-
Teaterpedagoger leker
med elden i föreställningen av Strindberg
Av: Isabelle
Ulfsdotter Hillberg
Lösnummer
Örebrostudenternas tidning, 4 april 2014
NYHET. Studenter från
teaterpedagogprogrammet sätter upp August
Strindbergs föreställning Leka med elden.
Initiativtagare till projektet är Peter
Joelsson. Ensemblen har repat sedan
september, nu närmar sig premiären.
I
dag har pjäsen Leka med elden premiär på
Teaterladan i Wadköping. På scen står
studenter från teaterpedagogprogrammet vid
Örebro universitet. Några av skådespelarna
har redan tagit sin examen medan andra
fortfarande studerar. Lösnummer träffar
gänget mitt i en av de slutgiltiga
repetitionerna. Peter Joelsson är den som
tagit initiativ till det här projektet.
–
Jag fick idén när vi tog examen förra våren.
Vi var ett gäng som skulle vara kvar i
Örebro så då föreslog jag att vi skulle
sätta upp en föreställning tillsammans.
Att det blev just Leka med elden berodde på
att en av hans kurskompisar satt upp en bit
av pjäsen under utbildningen.
– Pjäsen är
både hemsk och rolig. Jag blev intresserad
av att fördjupa mig mer i den.
Läs mer:
http://www.losnummer.se/nyheter/2014/04/teaterpedagoger-leker-med-elden-i-forestallningen-av-strindberg/
USA, Chicago (ILL)
For 'Dance,' an
overdue visit from Conor McPherson
By Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune,
April 3,
2014
Until this past week — and I find this
rather incredible — Conor McPherson had
never been to Chicago. It's surprising
because few theater-loving cities, outside
of Dublin anyway, have been so obsessed with
the works of a fellow who is, to my mind,
Ireland's leading living playwright.
McPherson's works have not been associated
with any particular Chicago theater; rather,
they've shown up all over town for a decade
or more. The Steppenwolf Theatre Company's
prismatic 2008 production of "The Seafarer,"
starring Francis Guinan, remains etched in
my memory. So does Robert Falls'
heart-stopping Goodman Theatre production of
"Shining City," which starred John Judd in
2007. McPherson's "Dublin Carol" turned out
to be a terrific vehicle for William
Petersen at the Steppenwolf Theatre, also in
2008.
Read more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-conor-mcpherson-dance-death,0,5157182.story
'Dance
of Death'
When: Through July 20
Where:
Writers Theatre at Books on Vernon, 664
Vernon Ave.
Tickets: $35-$70;
847-242-6000, writerstheatre.org
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Larry Yando adds
another layer to multifaceted career with
‘Dance’
By Hedy Weiss
Chicago
Sun-times, April 3, 2014
You might know him as Scar, the sinister
wannabe king in the national touring
production of “The Lion King.” Or as an
impossibly fierce and smarmy Roy Cohn in
Court Theatre’s “Angels in America.” Or as
Richard Nixon in “Nixon’s Nixon” at Writers
Theatre. Or as Pangloss, the happily deluded
philosopher in “Candide,” Shere Khan, the
villainous tiger in “The Jungle Book,” and
the irresistible Ebenezer Scrooge (a role he
has played with relish for six years) all at
the Goodman Theatre.
Of course the actor
in question is Larry Yando. And this week he
will be back at Writers Theatre starring
opposite Shannon Cochran in “The Dance of
Death,” August Strindberg’s drama of a
marriage from hell.
Read more:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/weiss/26599259-452/larry-yando-adds-another-layer-to-multifaceted-career-with-dance.html
Strindbergsmaskinen
arbetar vidare även i år
Av Lars Gustaf Andersson
Kvällsposten 03 apr 2014
Oavsett om det är jubelår eller ej så
arbetar den stora Strindbergsmaskinen
vidare, producerar avhandlingar,
konferenser, nationalutgåvor,
teaterpremiärer, debattinslag, såväl
underdåniga körer som hätska
avståndstaganden. Strindberg är kanske inte
ett nationalmonument längre, han är snarare
ett inslag i den svenska topografin, något
som bara finns där och som inte går att
bortse ifrån- vad man än tycker om honom och
hans vittförgrenade produktion.
Nu har
Strindbergssällskapets årsskrift,
"Strindbergiana", utkommit med sin 29:onde
årgång.
Läs mer:
http://www.expressen.se/kvp/kultur/strindbergsmaskinen-arbetar-vidare-aven-i-ar/
Arkivet stannar i
Kungliga biblioteket
Av Anna Söderquist
Helsingborgs Dagblad, 3 april 2014
Efter sjuttio år i Landskrona museums gömmor
skickades klipparkivet till Stockholm för
att deponeras. Det kommer inte tillbaka, för
nu har man donerat samlingen till Kungliga
biblioteket.
1942 fick Landskrona museum
ta emot en testamentarisk gåva. Det var en
speciell gåva, bestående av över trettio
klippböcker med tidningsurklipp,
teaterprogram, teateraffischer, brev från
författare och annat. Allt material handlade
om August Strindberg och skänktes av den
förre redaktören på Landskrona Posten,
tillika översättaren, Gösta Westman.
Och
på muséet låg det, i många, många år. Ända
fram till 1998, då kulturnämnden beslutade
sig för att deponera det på Kungliga
biblioteket i Stockholm.
Läs
mer:
http://hd.se/landskrona/2014/04/03/arkivet-stannar-i-kungens/
USA, Chicago (ILL)
The 36 Best Shows in
Chicago Theatre This Month
Here are the critics’ picks
for the comedies, dramas, and musicals
hitting the city’s stages in April.
By Catey Sullivan
Chicago
Magazine, April 3, 2014
[...]
Dramas
The Dance of Death
Through
7/20 Long before Edward Albee wrote Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, August Strindberg
penned this story of a long-married couple
seemingly intent on eviscerating each other
right down to their very bone marrow. The
weapons of choice in this venomous
masterpiece? Words. And here those words
come from an adaptation by Conor McPherson
(Shining City, Dublin Carol), an Irish
playwright who knows a thing or two about
the linguistically whirling humor that
informs Strindberg’s portrait of a marriage
on the brink of an abyss. $60. Writers
Theatre, 664 Vernon, writerstheatre.org
Link:
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/April-2014/What-to-Do-in-Chicago-in-April-Theatre/
Canada, Vancouver (BC)
Theatre review: Fiery
performances set Mies Julie ablaze
Intense and graphic production set in
post-apartheid South Africa
By Jo Ledingham
Vancouver
Courier, April 1, 2014
When Mies Julie (Hilda Cronje) enters
the room, barefoot and bare legged, slick
with sweat and wearing a flimsy skirt slit
to the waist, you know she’s looking for
action. Privileged daughter of the Boer
landowner of a Karoo, South Africa farm, she
has been drinking and dancing with the black
farmhands out back. Disheveled, she enters
the kitchen of her father’s house and
circles like a bitch in heat her father’s
black servant —handsome, virile John
(Bongile Mantsai) — as he polishes his
master’s boots. The scene is so sexually
charged the air feels hot and thick in the
Cultch.
This production by the Baxter
Theatre Centre, University of Cape Town (in
association with the South African State
Theatre), is a superbly polished, powerful
adaptation by Yaël Farber of Miss Julie
written by the late-19th century Swedish
playwright August Strindberg. While
Strindberg’s basic story is there, Farber
transports it into present-day South Africa,
layering it with racial and land ownership
tension — conflicts that remain unresolved
despite the end of apartheid.
Read more:
http://www.vancourier.com/entertainment/theatre-review-fiery-performances-set-mies-julie-ablaze-1.938523
Mies Julie
At the Cultch until April
19
Tickets: 604-251-1363, thecultch.com
UK
Shaun Evans
to Star in MISS JULIE and BLACK COMEDY at
Chichester from July 4
By BWW
News Desk
BroadwayWorldCom - West End,
April 1 2014
Actor Shaun Evans - currently starring
as young Inspector Morse in ITV's Endeavour
- is confirmed to appear in the Miss
Julie/Black Comedy double bill at the
Minerva Theatre, Chichester during Festival
2014.
Evans will play Jean in Rebecca
Lenkiewicz's new version of Miss Julie,
August Strindberg's exploration of sex,
class and power. He will also play Harold
Gorringe in Peter Shaffer's delightful
farce, Black Comedy.
In addition to his
role as the iconic television detective,
Evans' credits include the West End
production of Kurt and Sid and Blue/Orange
(UK tour). Other screen credits include
Wreckers, Silk, The Last Weekend and
Teachers.
He joins Rosalie Craig
(recently nominated for a 2014 Olivier
Award), who plays the title role in Miss
Julie and Clea in Black Comedy, and Marcia
Warren, Miss Furnival in Black Comedy, whose
credits include the West End production of
The Ladykillers and ITV's Edge of Heaven.
Miss Julie/Black Comedy will be at the
Minerva Theatre, Chichester from 4 July - 9
August. For further information visit
cft.org.uk or contact the Box Office on
01243 781312.
Link:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Shaun-Evans-to-Star-in-MISS-JULIE-and-BLACK-COMEDY-at-Chichester-from-July-4-20140401#.U0ZkuseZ3yw
Dödsdansen | Göteborgs
dramatiska teater
Det blir rätt kul i helvetet när
Göteborgs dramatiska teater bjuder upp till
Dödsdansen av Strindberg, skriver Lis
Hellström Sveningson.
Av Lis Hellström Sveningson
GP, 1
april 2014
August Strindbergs Dödsdansen är impregnerad
av giftigheter. Efter 25 års äktenskap har
de båda makarna Edgar och Alice fastnat i
utstuderade, grälsjuka turer.
Eriks
Ståhlbergs uppsättning omplacerar perfekt
det klaustrofobiska tornrummet på
fästningsön till Göteborgs dramatiska
teaters källarutrymme. Scenograferna Anna
Hjertén Grahm och John Olsson utnyttjar
smart rummets råa tegelvägg och pelare. Inte
ens Alices tramporgel förmår skapa trivsel i
”lilla helvetet”.
Utifrån fasta
positioner – Peter Harryson mutar in Edgars
stol, medan Åsa-Lena Hjelm tar kanapén åt
Alice – för paret sitt ställningskrig mot
varandra, men förenas i förakt mot
omgivningen. När Alice kusin Kurt – Erik
Åkerlind – anländer rubbas ordningen.
Läs mer:
http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/2.276/1.2328506-dodsdansen-goteborgs-dramatiska-teater
Teater
Dödsdansen
Göteborgs
dramatiska teater
Av: August Strindberg
Regi: Erik Ståhlberg
Medverkande: Peter
Harryson, Åsa-Lena Hjelm, Erik Åkerlind
Spelas t o m 11 maj
USA, New York (NY)
August
Strindberg Rep to Present To Damascus, part
1, 4/18-5/11
Broadway World, Off-off Broadway March 12
August Strindberg's "To Damascus, Part
1" will be adapted to Harlem, 1962 in the
next production of August Strindberg
Repertory Theatre (www.strindberg.org).
The play will be presented with a
multi-racial cast April 18 to May 11 at the
Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street (East
Village). It is the first part of a trilogy
(called "The Road to Damascus" in earlier
translations) that has been described as
"Strindberg's most complex plays" and as
"his greatest plays," due to their synthesis
of a wide variety of myths, symbols and
ideas with a profound spiritual analysis in
a new dramatic form. August Strindberg Rep
will present Part 2 in March, 2015 and Part
3 in 2016. It will be the first time the
trilogy will have been presented complete in
any language in 99 years.
Read
more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/August-Strindberg-Rep-to-Present-TO-DAMASCUS-PART-1-418-511-20140312#.UyTRcF6gzyw
Canada
South African struggle laid bare on
stage in Mies Julie
By Stuart Derdeyn
The Province
March 21, 2014
Class, love, lust, gender politics,
and racism all come together in Baxter
Theatre Centre of South Africa’s adaptation
of Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s
1880 work Mies Julie.
The show comes to
the Cultch for an extended run this week
after the play made best of the year lists
for drama in both the New York Times and the
Guardian.
Actor Hilde Cronje plays the
titular character, a daughter of a wealthy
farmer who has it on with a charismatic
African farm labourer named John.
Growing up on a farm in an underpopulated
area of Northern Kwazulu-Natal, Cronje could
relate first hand to the fierce and cruel
politics of the play and its multi-layered
interracial, interclass romance.
“I
grew up in a free South Africa, but in a
very small town with very conservative
values and the walls and the beliefs that
built them were very much evident,” Cronje
says. “Today, things are indeed different,
but that hasn’t happened so fast that the
subject matter of the play doesn’t still
resonate powerfully. It has generated some
very interesting dialogue in the talkback
sessions.”
Read more:
http://www.theprovince.com/life/South+African+struggle+laid+bare+stage+Mies+Julie/9647111/story.html
On Stage:
Mies Julie
Where:Historic Theatre in the Cultch, 1895
Venables St.
When: Tuesday to April 19
Tickets: From $31 at tickets.thecultch.com
Deutschland
6. Viesener Theaterfrühling
Stadtgeschehen
Meetingpoint -
Brandenbur 21.03.2014
Der diesjährige Viesener
Theaterfrühling 2014 steht unter dem Motto
"Traumwelten". Vom 30. Mai bis 1. Juni und
vom 13. bis 15. Juni werden auf der
Lehnschulzen-Hofbühne folgende Stücke
gezeigt:
„Peer Gynt“ in einer speziell für die
Hofbühne erarbeiteten Fassung von Boris von
Poser nach dem großen dramatischen Gedicht
von Henrik Ibsen mit Stella Maria Adorf,
Peer Jäger, Maximilian Löwenstein, Birge
Schade und Frederike Schinzler – alle
bekannt aus Film- und Fernsehen - und
„Fräulein Julie“ von August Strindberg im
Regiedebüt des norwegisch-schwedischen
Schauspielers Andree-Östen Solvik in einer
internationalen Besetzung mit der
norwegischen Schauspielerin und Musikerin
Cecilie Jørstad, Nora Huetz und dem aus
Eritrea stammenden Selam Tadese.
Mit
Henrik Ibsen und August Strindberg stehen
die wohl bekanntesten Theaterautoren aus dem
skandinavischen Sprachraum auf dem Spielplan
der LehnschulzenHofbühne. Ergänzt werden
diese beiden nordischen Stücke durch die
Autorenlesung des ungarisch-schwedischen
Schriftstellers Gellert Tamas, der mit
seinem dokumentarischen Roman „Der
Lasermann“ in Schweden Furore gemacht hat.
Weitere Programmpunkte des Festivals sind
„Der Trinker“, ein Gastspiel des Neuen
Theaters Halle gespielt von Matthias Brenner
in einer Monologfassung und unter der Regie
von Uwe Dag Berlin, „Haltewunschtaste“ die
Schauspielerin und Autorin Nele Heyse liest
aus ihrem Roman, sowie ein „Tag der
Kurzfilme“, an dem Mitwirkende und mit dem
Theaterfrühling verbundene Schauspieler,
Regisseure und Kameramänner Kurzfilme
präsentieren.
Ein
Kinderfilmprogramm, Publikumsgespräche vor
und nach den Vorstellungen sowie
kulinarische Verpflegung runden Programm ab.
Der Kartenverkauf beginnt am 29. März
2014, mehr Infos: [www.lehnschulzenhofbuehne.de].
Link:
http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=de&tl=sv&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meetingpoint-brandenburg.de%2Fneuigkeiten%2Fartikel%2F8223-6_Viesener_Theaterfruehling
Canada
Love is a force for freedom in Mies
Julie
Mies Julie brings Strindberg into the 21st
century to show how fragile oppression can
be
in the face of powerful
attractions.
By Kathleen Oliver
Georgia Straight,
Mar 19, 2014
Mies Julie is steeped in
political tension, but in
playwright-director Yael Farber’s vision,
it’s also a love story.
Based on
August Strindberg’s 1888 play, in which the
aristocratic but rebellious daughter of a
nobleman shakes up the class and gender
hierarchies by having sex with one of the
family’s servants, Mies Julie has been
showered with accolades all over the world,
and soon will have its Canadian premiere
here, at the Cultch.
Read more:
http://www.straight.com/arts/609301/love-force-freedom-mies-julie
Mies Julie is at the Cultch from
Tuesday (March 25) to April 19.
Canada
The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Mies
Julie
By staaf
Georgia Straight, Mar 18, 2014
South Africa’s Baxter Theatre Centre
presents Mies Julie at the Cultch (1895
Venables Street) from March 25 to April 19.
Written and directed by Yael Farber and
based on the play Miss Julie by August
Strindberg is produced by Baxter Theatre at
the University of Capetown and the South
African State Theatre in association with
the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
Read more:
http://www.straight.com/blogra/609161/georgia-straight-proudly-sponsors-mies-julie
South Africa
'Mies
Julie' picks up three Naledi gongs
South African playwright-director Yael
Farber's Mies Julie won three Naledi Theatre
Awards last night.
By Staff reporter and Eugene Yiga
The Times, 18 mars, 2014
Farber took the bones of August
Strindberg's 1888 play, in which an
aristocratic woman has sex with a
manservant, and localised it. She set her
work on a Karoo farm, on Freedom Day in
2012. That night, Miss Julie and her
father's favourite worker taunt and play
with each other with devastating
consequences.
Bongile Mantsai, who
plays John, won the best male actor award.
Farber won the best director award and the
play was awarded best production of a play.
Read more:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/03/18/mies-julie-picks-up-three-naledi-gongs
Deutschland
Carsten Werner inszeniert und
aktualisiert die Komödie
"Rausch"
Frischzellenkur
für Strindberg
Von Arne Bode
Weser Kurier,
18.03.2014
Bremen. Carsten Werner bespielt nach
fünf Jahren Regieabstinenz noch einmal die
Bühne der Schwankhalle. Dort ist nun eine
aktualisierte Fassung des Strindberg-Stückes
„Rausch“ zu sehen.
„Rausch“
beruht auf zwei sehr unterschiedlichen
Stücken: August Strindbergs 1899
geschriebener tragischer Komödie und dem
gesellschaftskritischen Stück von Falk
Richter aus dem Jahr 2012. Im Zentrum der
Handlung steht der Aufstieg und Fall des
Dramatikers Maurice, der in einem
Beziehungsgeflecht mit seiner Geliebten
Henriette und seiner Freundin Jeanne
unterzugehen droht. Liebe, Lust, Zweifel und
ein wenig Rausch dominieren das Spiel der
Charaktere. Maurice, stark verkörpert von
Lajos Talamonti, und seine Geliebte enden in
Selbstzweifel und gegenseitigen
Anschuldigungen.
Lesen Sie Mehr:
http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/kultur2_artikel,-Frischzellenkur-fuer-Strindberg-_arid,806007.html
Deutschland
Mitgründer Carsten Werner verlässt die
Schwankhalle
"Das ist ein schöner
Abschied"
Von Iris Hetscher
Weser Kurier,
14.03.2014
Bremen. Am
Sonntagabend hat in der Schwankhalle
„Rausch“ Premiere – nach Stücken von August
Strindberg und Falk Richter. Für Carsten
Werner (46), Mit-Gründer des Jungen Theaters
Bremen, Journalist und inzwischen auch
Bürgerschaftsabgeordneter der Grünen, ist es
die letzte Regiearbeit an dem Haus, das er
mitgegründet hat. Iris Hetscher hat mit
Carsten Werner über die Arbeit für die Kunst
und für die Politik gesprochen.
Herr Werner, Sie verabschieden sich
nach elf Jahren von der Schwankhalle. Warum
ausgerechnet mit einem Stück namens
„Rausch“?
Werner: Im „Rausch“ von
August Strindberg geht es um
Künstlerbiografien. Darauf hatten wir mit
einem Ensemble von künstlerischen
Individualisten einfach große Lust. Falk
Richter hat uns die ganze Zeit über
begleitet, als Autor
gesellschaftspolitischer Stücke. Die beiden
Vorlagen heißen zufällig gleich, wir haben
aber viele Schnittmengen gefunden.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/kultur2_artikel,-Das-ist-ein-schoener-Abschied-_arid,803422.html
Rausch“ von August Strindberg/Falk
Richter, Regie: Carsten Werner, hat am
Sonntag, 16. März, 20 Uhr, in der
Schwankhalle, Buntentorsteinweg 112,
Premiere
USA, New York (NY)
August Strindberg Rep to Present To
Damascus,
part 1, 4/18-5/11
Broadway World, Off-off Broadway March
12
August Strindberg's "To Damascus, Part
1" will be adapted to Harlem, 1962 in the
next production of August Strindberg
Repertory Theatre (www.strindberg.org).
The play will be presented with a
multi-racial cast April 18 to May 11 at the
Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street (East
Village). It is the first part of a trilogy
(called "The Road to Damascus" in earlier
translations) that has been described as
"Strindberg's most complex plays" and as
"his greatest plays," due to their synthesis
of a wide variety of myths, symbols and
ideas with a profound spiritual analysis in
a new dramatic form. August Strindberg Rep
will present Part 2 in March, 2015 and Part
3 in 2016. It will be the first time the
trilogy will have been presented complete in
any language in 99 years.
Read
more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/August-Strindberg-Rep-to-Present-TO-DAMASCUS-PART-1-418-511-20140312#.UyTRcF6gzyw
British
Columbia, Canada
Douglas
College stages A Dream Play
Royal City Record, March 11, 2014
When a goddess descends to Earth
to learn about the plight of humanity, her
dream-like journey raises the question of
whether our existence has any meaning.
A Dream Play, an adaptation of August
Strindberg's drama by Caryl Churchill, is
onstage at Douglas College from March 14 to
21.
It's being presented by theatre
students, along with those in the department
of stagecraft and event technology.
It
follows the story of Agnes, a daughter of
the Vedic god Indra, who assumes human form
to visit Earth, where she encounters a group
of people whose lives are filled with
hardship and disappointment.
Read
more:
http://www.royalcityrecord.com/entertainment/douglas-college-stages-a-dream-play-1.893494
USA, Chicago (ILL)
Writers Theatre to Present
DANCE OF DEATH, 4/1-7/20
Broadway World, March 7, 2014
Writers Theatre presents The Dance of
Death by August Strindberg, in a new version
by Conor McPherson and directed by Henry
Wishcamper. The production runs April 1 -
July 20, 2014 at 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe.
The press openings are April 9 and 10, 2014
at 7:30pm.
Read more:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Writers-Theatre-to-Present-DANCE-OF-DEATH-41-720-20140307#.UxpYyF6gxS8
Strindberg library book returned 44 years
late
By Ann Törnkvist
The Local, Sweden's
News in English, 07 Mar 2014
Staff at Stockholm City Library were
left amused when a collection of August
Strindberg's love letters was dropped off
this week. The slim volume should have been
returned to them in 1970.
A mystery
person put the thin volume through the
library's automated drop-off system, but as
the newer books churned through the system,
the chip-reading robot Svea protested.
Instead, a librarian had to take a look at
the book, which had an old-fashioned library
card on the inside.
"March 18th, 1970,"
the stamped due date informed him. Amused,
he brought it up to his colleagues.
Read more:
http://www.thelocal.se/20140307/strindberg-library-book-returned-44-years-late
Lämnade in boken till bibblan – 44 år för
sent
Av Erik Carlsson
Expressen 06 mar 2014
På våren 1970 gick en person in
på ett bibliotek i Stockholm och lånade en
bok skriven av August Strindberg.
Nu i
veckan, nästan exakt 44 år senare, lämnades
den tillbaka.
– Frågan är om det är
något slags rekord, säger Birgitta Widlund
på Stockholms stadsbibliotek till Expressen.
"Enligt våra anteckningar har Ni inte
återlämnat vissa böcker, vars lånetid har
gått ut. Vi ber Er vara vänlig att så snart
som möjligt göra detta till vilket som helst
av våra bibliotek".
Det meddelandet
skickades ut från Stockholms stadsbibliotek
den 18 mars 1970 till en person som tidigare
lånat August Strindbergs bok "Brev".
Läs mer:
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/lamnade-in-boken-till-bibblan--44-ar-for-sent/
Äv:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=103&artikel=5802933
UK
The Last Alchemist in Paris,
book review: curious tales of chemistry
From an Agatha Christie plot to a squib by
George Bernard Shaw, the stories are
fascinating. It's a pity there isn't space
to tell some of them properly
By
Tim Radford
The
Guardian, Thursday 6 March 2014
We are all chemists: our digestive systems
are enzyme-powered energy conversion
retorts, everything that grows in the garden
is a sophisticated chemical plant engaged in
urgent solar-driven synthesis, and when we
plunge a spade into the manure, we invest
our effort in assorted carbonates and
nitrates that can be refined into high
explosives. Every day we get our hands dirty
with unconscious chemical industry, and then
we wash them with a chemical invention
called soap.
The book in your hands is
so much air, sunlight and water converted
first by photosynthesis into leaf and wood
which is then pulped and rolled back into
another kind of leaf; the words on it are
outlined in a mix of iron salts, tannins and
water, and the chances are (Lars Öhrström
has a lot of fun with literary connections)
the book is about chemistry anyway.
August Strindberg was – to get any potential
exasperation out of the way quickly – the
last alchemist in Paris, except that he
probably wasn't.
Read more:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/06/last-alchemist-paris-book-review-agatha-christie-george-bernard-shaw
The Last Alchemist in Paris: And other
curious tales from chemistry
by Lars
Öhrström
Deutschland
„Fräulein Julie“ im Theater tri-bühne
Das Wasser sorgt für Abkühlung
Von
Armin Friedl
ZVW, 28.02.2014
Die Regisseurin Christine Gnann
inszeniert August Strindbergs Tragödie „Das
Fräulein Julie“ für das Stuttgarter Theater
tri-bühne weitgehend als Gegenwartsstück.
Stuttgart - Einfach lässig sehen die
zwei jungen Schauspielerinnen aus in ihren
Herrenanzügen mit entsprechenden Hüten, und
der junge Mann dazu fühlt sich eh wohl in
solchen Klamotten. So eingestimmt, singen
sie „Let’s Fall In Love“, begleitet vom
Big-Band-Sound der 1950er und 1960er Jahre.
In seiner Tragödie „Das Fräulein Julie“
treibt August Strindberg die Aufhebung der
Standesunterschiede voran, in der
Inszenierung von Christine Gnann für das
Stuttgarter Theater tri-bühne sind sie kaum
noch zu erkennen. Um zu zeigen, dass die
besseren Zeiten schon lange vorbei sind,
agieren die drei die ganze Aufführung über
in einem heruntergekommenen Swimmingpool, in
dem sich gerade noch knöcheltief ein Rest
Wasser befindet.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.zvw.de/inhalt.fraeulein-julie-im-theater-tri-buehne-das-wasser-sorgt-fuer-abkuehlung.bdfee8fa-2b07-41c4-89e1-56c45c729e83.html
Deutschland, Stuttgart
„Das
Fräulein Julie“ – Theater tri-büne „Sie
verhandeln reale Probleme“
Von Armin Friedl,
Stuttgarter-Nachrichten 26.02.2014
Die Regisseurin Christine Gnann
inszeniert „Das Fräulein Julie“ von August
Strindberg im Theater tri-bühne.
Stuttgart – - Frau Gnann, Sie inszenieren
das Stück vor allem mit auffallend jungen
Schauspielern. Ging das gut aus?
Ja, die sind alle unter 30 Jahren. Anfangs
war das schon irritierend, und es war
zunächst schwierig, die richtige Haltung zum
Stück zu finden. Zumal das Ensemble der
tri-bühne von der Altersstruktur her
eigentlich gut durchmischt ist. Aber die
drei haben das alle sehr gut gemacht, ich
war überrascht von der Qualität dieser
Schauspieler. Die haben eben noch viel
Esprit. So erscheint dieses Strindberg-Stück
in einer etwas anderen Farbe.
Können
Sie diese etwas andere Farbe näher
beschreiben?
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.das-fraeulein-julie-theater-tri-buene-sie-verhandeln-reale-probleme.18fc41ed-dbc5-4db9-9616-ca3e52086593.html
Premiere an diesem Mittwoch um 20 Uhr.
Karten unter 07 11 / 2 36 46 10
Moster
Malvina
på Strindbergs Intima teater
MyNewsDesk,
Pressmeddelande 2014-02-11
Teaterchefen Ture Rangström med sin
lilla personal fortsätter att odla
särintressen på Strindbergsteatern. Ett sätt
är att bjuda in den förkättrade
kvinnodramatiken. Anne Charlotte
Lefflers tragiska komedi har legat i svarta
lådan i över hundra år. Den är ett modernt,
fräckt, välskrivet, roligt och rörande
skådespel som utspelas på ett hem för äldre
kvinnor. Ämnet är tidlöst och högaktuellt.
Anne Charlotte Leffler var en av de främsta
förkämparna för kvinnors rättigheter och
frihet när det begav sig. Hennes pjäser
handlar ofta om kvinnors rätt att bestämma
över sina liv, sina pengar och sina känslor.
Strindberg hatade och fruktade den
intelligenta damen som var årsbarn med honom
själv. Nu går Leffler igen och visar vilken
briljant dramatiker vi har gått miste om i
så många år. ”Moster Malvina” är en intensiv
dramatisk situation i en akt. Världspremiär
på kvinnodagen den 8 mars.
Det känns
fantastiskt att kunna befolka Strindbergs
lilla scen med kvinnor i alla roller. Och
vilka kvinnor! Anita Wall, Gunnel Lindblom,
Inga Landgré, Görel Crona, Sara Turpin, Åsa
Norman Kumlien, Agnetha Hjelm, Marianne
Blomberg, Berit Tidblad.
Den som ska
försöka styra och ställa i den slutna
kvinnovärlden är den från Kina hemvändande
regissören och teaterprofessorn Mathias
Lafolie. Scenografi och kostym görs av Kajsa
Larss on. För musiken svarar Henrik Björlin.
Ljusdesigner är William Wenner. Siv Molin
Glans är maskör. Produktion: Strindbergs
Intima teater
Välkomna till ”Moster
Malvina”!
Premiär på 8 mars
klockan 18.00
Pressansvarig Katharina
Lind, 08-545 110 42, 073- 654 98 15
Adress: Strindbergs Intima teater,
Barnhusgatan 20, Norra Bantorget
Länk:
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kulturdirekt/pressreleases/moster-malvina-paa-strindbergs-intima-teater-960135
UK
Miss Julie at Citizens, Glasgow
By Allan Radcliffe
The Times, February
11 2014
Rated to 4 stars
Back in 1997, when the Citizens last
tackled August Strindberg’s chamber piece,
it was staged in the circle studio with the
audience wired straight into the electricity
between the actors. With Louise Brealey, one
of the stars of the BBC’s Sherlock, heading
the cast of this revival of Zinnie Harris’s
2006 adaptation, there was never much chance
of the paying public being quite so immersed
in the three-hander about an aristocratic
woman who has sex with her father’s
manservant. That said, the stripped-back
nature of Dominic Hill’s main stage
production, which places a naked emphasis on
the verbal
Read more:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/stage/theatre/article4001474.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_02_10
Australia, Perth
Polished
portrait of a shocking struggle
By Victoria Laurie
The Australian,
February 10, 2014
THE biopic Mandela: Long Walk to
Freedom, which screens nationwide this week,
could feel like a shot in the arm about how
far post-apartheid South Africa has come. If
so, Yael Farber’s haunting Mies Julie acts
like a counterpunch in the solar plexus.
Set 20 years on from Freedom Day, when the
first free elections voted in Nelson
Mandela, we meet a black servant still
polishing the boots of his white master in
the semi-desert Karoo region.
Johannesburg-raised Farber has penned a
South African version of Strindberg’s Miss
Julie, in which Julie lives on the farm of
her Afrikaaner father. Farber describes the
Karoo as “a bastion of enduring
sociopolitical conservatism”, which loosely
equates to Strindberg’s stiflingly
class-based 19th century Swedish setting, in
which upper class Miss Julie both seduces
and is seduced by her father’s lowly
manservant, Jean.
Read more:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/polished-portrait-of-a-shocking-struggle/story-e6frg8n6-1226821919808
UK, Glasgow
Miss Julie,
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, review
Strindberg's drama Miss Julie succeeds
excitingly at the Citizens Theatre in
Glasgow
4 out of 5 stars
By Mark
Brown
The Telegraph,09 Feb 2014
Twice in recent years Scottish theatre
audiences have borne witness to the
continuing, searing power of Strindberg’s
Miss Julie. In 2012 Yaël Farber’s
extraordinary relocation of the play to
modern South Africa (adding racism to the
play’s already combustible combination of
class and gender relations) was, deservedly,
the toast of the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2006,
as part of its inaugural programme, the
National Theatre of Scotland toured Zinnie
Harris’s adaptation (set, plausibly, in
Scotland during the industrial militancy of
the mid-1920s) to smaller performance spaces
around the country.
Strong though it
was, the necessarily small scale of the NTS
production meant that the mutually
catastrophic attraction between John (head
butler to a mighty, aristocratic mill owner)
and Julie (the master’s daughter) seemed a
little stinted. A paradox of this potent
tragedy is that its famously oppressive
atmosphere needs room to breathe. Dominic
Hill’s excellent revival for the Citizens
Theatre gives it that.
Read
more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10627094/Miss-Julie-Citizens-Theatre-Glasgow-review.html
UK, Glasgow
Miss Julie –
review
Strindberg's play is reduced somewhat to the
story of a wealthy woman's psychological
breakdown
3 out of 5
By Mark
Fisher
The Guardian,
Sunday 9 February 2014
It's the
morning after the night before. Louise
Brealey's Julie is one part elated, one part
exposed. She's a titled lady who's had it
off with an employee (in Zinnie Harris's
salty translation, he is a servant, she a
"servant's fuck"), and the thrill of the
conquest is now doing battle with the terror
of scandal.
Keith Fleming's John is
sitting smugly in one corner of the kitchen,
a man sexually sated and expectant of social
betterment, as she pours him a glass of
wine. Except, rather than offer a ladylike
top-up, she lunges the bottle towards him
and tips it from a great height. Fleming
looks on, perplexed, as the wine splashes
about him. It is a gesture that encapsulates
Brealey's interpretation: her Julie is a
push-pull paradox of generosity and
aggression, civility and rage, a woman
deeply at odds with herself.
Read
more:
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/feb/09/miss-julie-review
Australia, Perth
Mies Julie | Perth Festival 2014
By Anna Locke
Australian Stage, 08 February 2014
Mies Julie is 90 minutes of
intensifying tension, movement and raw
passion played out on the Octagon stage, and
a wonderful start to the theatre program of
the 2014 Perth International Arts Festival.
Directed by Yael Farber, the show comes from
the Baxter Theatre Centre in association
with the South African State Theatre. Based
on August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, it has
been updated to a remote farm in
contemporary South Africa, where race is
still an issue 20 years after apartheid.
The story centres on Julie (Mies Julie), the
young white daughter of the farm owner; and
John, the famers’ black servant. Also
present are Christine, John’s mother and the
household maid, and the ghost of their
ancestors, who have been on the land for
centuries.
It is Freedom Day, and the
tension outside the kitchen is nothing
compared to the tension that builds inside
between Julie and John. Julie, drunk and
recently dumped, teases and cajoles John
until events explode and start a train of
incidents that end in disaster. It’s a
powerful piece of theatre; raw, shocking and
confronting.
Read more:
http://australianstage.com.au/201402086691/reviews/perth/mies-julie-|-perth-festival-2014.html
Australia, Perth
World's greatest choir arrives
By Stephen Bevis
The West
Australian February 7, 2014
We
have sent Premier Colin Barnett and the
Australian cricket team to South Africa.
In return, Perth is getting the world's
greatest choir, the Voice of the Nation
Ensemble, the five-star international hit
play Mies Julie and esteemed artist William
Kentridge.
In a fascinating cultural
trade, a strong contingent of South African
artistic talent has crossed the Indian Ocean
to appear in the Perth International Arts
Festival.
Read more:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/21313978/worlds-greatest-choir-arrives/
Strindbergsamling skänks till KB
Helsingborgs Dagblad, 7 februari 2014
Av Magnus Arvidsson
August Strindberg-material, som en
tidigare Landskrona Posten-redaktör skänkte
till museet, blir nu Kungliga bibliotekets
egendom.
1942 fick Landskrona museum en
omfattande samling med August
Strindberg-material. Det var testamenterat
av Gösta Westman, översättare och tidigare
redaktör för Landskrona Posten.
Samlingen omfattade 32 klippböcker, med allt
från tidningsartiklar till teateraffischer,
samt brev från kända svenska författare
gällande översättningar av
Strindbergsmaterial.
Dåvarande
museiantikvarie Elisabeth Lundin gick genom
materialet 1998. Såvitt hon visste var det
aldrig någon som frågade efter Westmans
samling.
Läs mer:
http://hd.se/landskrona/2014/02/07/strindbergsamling-skanks-till-kb/
USA, Chicago (IL)
USA, Chicago (IL)
Writers announces
'Dance of Death' cast
By Johnny Oleksinski
Chicago Tribune, February 4, 2014
On Monday Writers Theatre announced
casting for its upcoming production of
August Strindberg’s “The Dance of Death,”
the American premiere of playwright Conor
McPherson’s new translation.
Shannon
Cochran will play Alice, Philip Earl Johnson
will play Kurt and rounding out the company
is Larry Yando as Edgar. Henry Wishcamper
directs the production — his first at
Writers — which begins performances on April
1 in the Books on Vernon venue, 664 Vernon
Ave. in Glencoe.
Link:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chi-writers-theatre-dance-of-death-cast,0,6351582.story
USA, Chicago (IL)
Writers Theatre to Present
THE DANCE
OF DEATH, 4/1-7/20
Broadway World, February 3, 2014
Writers Theatre presents The Dance of
Death by August Strindberg, in a new version
by Conor McPherson and directed by Henry
Wishcamper. The production runs April 1 -
July 20, 2014 at 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe.
August Strindberg's masterpiece tells the
deliciously venomous story of a crumbling
marriage-laced with black comedy and biting
humor. As their 25th anniversary approaches,
military captain, Edgar, and his wife,
Alice, face off in a fierce battle of wills.
Their sparring proves both harrowing and
hilarious, amplified by the voice of
celebrated playwright Conor McPherson (Port
Authority, The Seafarer, Shining City,
Dublin Carol). His adaptation brings
lyricism and ferocity to the story of the
tyrannical captain and his manipulative
wife, and the "innocent" Kurt who stumbles
into their midst and quickly finds himself
ensnared in the couple's wicked game.
The cast includes Shannon Cochran (Alice),
Philip Earl Johnson (Kurt) and Larry Yando
(Edgar). The creative team includes Kevin
Depinet (Scenic Designer), Rachel Laritz
(Costume Designer), Keith Parham (Lighting
Designer), Josh Schmidt (Sound Designer),
Julie Eberhardt (Props Designer), Greg Allen
(Assistant Director) and Rebecca Pechter
(Stage Manager).
Link:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Writers-Theatre-to-Present-THE-DANCE-OF-DEATH-41-720-20140203
UK, Glasgow
Louise
Brealey: from Sherlock's Molly to
Strindberg's Miss Julie
Louise Brealey takes a break from rehearsals
at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow to talk
about playing the title role in Strindberg's
classic about the power struggle between an
aristocratic woman and her father's butler
By Chris Wiegand
The
Guardian, 4 February 2014
Almost 10m viewers watched Sherlock
snog Molly on New Year's Day. Now, Louise
Brealey – who has won a huge following as
the sleuth's lovelorn lab assistant – is
taking on a rather more intimate affair.
She's starring in Zinnie Harris's version of
August Strindberg's Miss Julie, which
relocates the original from late
19th-century Sweden to Scotland in the
1920s. Directed by Dominic Hill, the
production opens on 6 February at the
Citizens theatre in Glasgow for just nine
performances.
Read more:
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/feb/04/louise-brealey-interview-sherlock-miss-julie
Persbrandt
satsar mer på teatern
Kulturtelegram. När Mikael Persbrandt gör
film längtar han hela tiden till scenen. I
höst återvänder han till teatern i
Strindbergs kanske vassaste äktenskapsdrama,
”Dödsdansen”.
Västerbottens-Kuriren 3.2 2014
—
Min ambition är att göra en pjäs om året.
Den eviga, omöjliga tvåsamheten är lika svår
i dag som 1900, då Strindberg skrev
”Dödsdansen” konstaterar både Lena Endre och
Mikael Persbrandt. I Stefan Larssons
uppsättning på Maximteatern i Stockholm
spelar duon de äkta, bittra makarna Edgar
och Alice, tillsammans med Thomas Hanzon som
gör vännen Kurt.
— Stefan och jag har
velat göra något länge, och det är på tiden
att jag gör något på min egen teater. När
man är i min ålder finns det en handfull
pjäser man verkligen vill göra och
Strindbergs ”Dödsdansen” hör till dem. Vi
har tittat på en del nyskrivet också, som
Stefan har bra koll på – så det kommer mer,
säger Mikael Persbrandt.
Läs mer:
http://www.vk.se/1109794/persbrandt-satsar-mer-pa-teatern
Deutschland
"Julia": Eine unmögliche Liebesgeschichte
Brasilianisches Gastspiel bei den
Lessingtagen
Die Welt 01.02.14
Dame und
Diener, das war eine absolut unerhörte
Liebeskonstruktion, als August Strindberg
1888 sein naturalistisches Trauerspiel
"Fräulein Julie" schrieb. Die Welt mag heute
multiethnisch sein – Klassenschranken gibt
es nach wie vor. Und Rassenschranken auch.
Wenn eine weiße, verwöhnte Tochter aus der
Oberschicht eine Affäre mit dem schwarzen
Chauffeur ihres Vaters anfängt, dann kann
das Anlass für vielerlei Ärger sein.
"Julia", wie die Produktion des
brasilianischen Cia. Vértice de Teatro nach
Strindbergs Drama heißt, die im Thalia
Gaußstraße bei den Lessingtagen zu Gast war,
zeigt, dass die brasilianische Gesellschaft
eben nicht, wie gern behauptet, die einzige
der Welt ist, die keine Rassenunterschiede
kennt.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/hamburg/article124437716/Julia-Eine-unmoegliche-Liebesgeschichte.html
JANUARI 2014
Österreich
Alexandra
Liedtke: "Man sollte sich vor der Liebe
fürchten"
Regisseurin Alexandra Liedtke bringt August
Strindbergs "Fräulein Julie" auf die
Probebühne des Schauspielhauses Graz. Am
Samstag findet die Premiere statt.
Kleine Zeitung 31.01.2014
Von Michael
Tschida
– Sie inszenieren nach Goethes
“Clavigo” 2012 nun zum zweiten Mal am Grazer
Schauspielhaus, nämlich August Strindbergs
“Fräulein Julie”. Wie sehen Sie denn das
Haus derzeit, unter dem Eindruck, dass
Intendantin Anna Badora im August 2015 ans
Wiener Volkstheater weiterzieht?
ALEXANDRA LIEDTKE: In Aufbruchsstimmung, in
sehr positiver.Es herrscht aufgeheizte
Aufregung: Was kommt Neues? Wer geht noch
weg, wohin, mit wem? Anna Badora hat hier
sehr lang sehr gute Arbeit gemacht, jetzt
gibt es eben Bewegung, und das muss man als
Chance sehen.
– Wie kam es zum
neuerlichen Engagement in Graz?
ALEXANDRA LIEDTKE: Es gab die gemeinsamen
Überlegungen, wie man anhand eines
Klassikers meine Arbeit an “Clavigo”
schlüssig fortführen kann. Abgesehen davon,
dass das Stück in den Spielplan passen muss,
stand die Idee im Vordergrund, welche Themen
gerade dringlich und passend sind.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/3535167/man-sollte-sich-vor-liebe-fuerchten.story
USA, Miami (FL)
Señorita Julia
‘Señorita Julia’, a golpe de palmada y
taconeo
Arturo Arias-Polo
El Nuevo Herald
01.30.14
Como una historia llena
de pasión, lujuria y resentimiento Ballet
Flamenco La Rosa anuncia el estreno mundial
de Señorita Julia, versión coreográfica de
Ilisa Rosal del drama homónimo de August
Strindberg (Estocolmo, Suecia, 1849-1912).
La producción trae desde España a los
bailaores Nella Madarro y Eloy Aguilar, la
cantaora Nieves Díaz y al guitarrista Manuel
Montero. Al elenco se suman la cantaora
Almudena Cáceres, residente en Miami, y 12
bailarines de la compañía.
Las
funciones ocuparán el teatro del Koubek
Center del Miami Dade College desde el
viernes 31 hasta el domingo 2.
Leer más:
http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/01/30/1668552/senorita-julia-a-golpe-de-palmada.html
‘Señorita Julia’, en Koubek Center del
Miami Dade College, 2705 SW 3 St. Viernes y
sábado, 8 p.m. Domingo, 3 p.m. Solo tres
funciones. (305) 899-7730.
Deutschland, Frankfurt
Reimanns
„Gespenstersonate“
Und vergib uns
unsere Schuld
Frankfurt - In Aribert Reimanns
„Gespenstersonate“ auf einen Text von August
Strindberg geht es um schuldhafte
Verstrickungen von Untoten und ganz
Lebendigen.
Von
Klaus Ackermann
op-online 28.01.14
Der britische Regisseur Walter
Sutcliffe hat das Psychodrama jetzt zwischen
Alptraum und Groteske im sachlichen Ambiente
des Bockenheimer Depots herausgebracht.
Ideal abgestimmt ist Reimanns zwischen Sein
und Schein schwebende Musik vom jungen
Kapellmeister Karsten Januschke und einem
Ensemble des Opernhaus und
Museumsorchesters. Und selbst als „Mumie“
zeigt Anja Silja starke Bühnenpräsenz.
Eine Villa im Puppenhaus-Format, ebenso wie
Stühle und Sessel einer
Gespenster-Gesellschaft auf der mittig
zwischen den Publikumsrängen platzierten
Bühne wie von Geisterhand bewegt
(Ausstattung: Kaspar Glarner). Höchst
lebendig wirkt da der greise Direktor
Hummel, der im Rollstuhl den Studenten
Arkenholz für sich einnehmen will, den das
Haus fasziniert und dem das dort befindliche
Fräulein als Braut avisiert wird.
Lesen Sie mehr:
http://www.op-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/aribert-reimann-gespenstersonate-bockenheimer-depot-3335260.html
Iran
Released
in Iran
'A Doll’s House' by August
Strindberg in Persian
Iran Book News Agency 27 Jan 2014
IBNA: Strindberg, mostly known for his
plays, was born in Stockholm in 1849 and
died in 1912. His exquisite creations made
critics describe him as the contemporary
Shakespeare, the crazy genius and the father
of modern drama.
Many of
Strindberg’s works have so far been
published in Persian like 'The Stronger'
(1889), and 'Pariah' (the same year).
Mohammad Reza Shekari has translated the
collection in 152 pages and has had it
published by Kouleh Poshti in Iran.
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 –
14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright,
novelist, poet, essayist and painter.
A prolific writer who often drew directly on
his personal experience, Strindberg's career
spanned four decades, during which time he
wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works
of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural
analysis, and politics.
A bold
experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he
explored a wide range of dramatic methods
and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy,
monodrama, and history plays, to his
anticipations of expressionist and
surrealist dramatic techniques.
From
his earliest work, Strindberg developed
forms of dramatic action, language, and
visual composition so innovative that many
were to become technically possible to stage
only with the advent of film.
Link:
http://www.ibna.ir/vdcdxx0f9yt0no6.em2y.html
Dagens
Nyheter – 150 år i ständig förändring
Av Lars Linder
DN 2014-01-27
I år är det precis
150 år och ungefär 55.000 tidningar sedan
Dagens Nyheter föddes. Lars Linder tecknar
ett porträtt av en åldring som alltid lever
i nuet.
1864, DN föds
Dagen
före julafton 1864 skakades den sömniga
tidningsmarknaden i Stockholm av en mindre
jordbävning, inte så kännbar att den störde
stadens julfrid men den skulle få
följdverkningar.
Orsaken var en ny
dagstidning, Dagens Nyheter. Namnet var
ingen slump, själva idén var att den skulle
prioritera nyheter och vara först med det
senaste. Inte precis en gren den handfull
tidningar i Stockholm som dittills funnits
tävlat särskilt hårt i, de flesta kom ut på
eftermiddagen och var mest ett slags
upplysande aktualitetsblad för
samhällseliten.
[...]
Efterhand
kunde Rudolf Wall också knyta till sig nya
medarbetare. En av dem var August
Strindberg, anställd i fyra månader 1873-74
och då sysselsatt bortåt 16 timmar om dygnet
med att referera riksdagsdebatter, skriva
notiser och översätta artiklar ur utländsk
press – tills han i vredesmod sade upp sig
efter att Wall anklagat honom för att ha
tagit sig för stora poetiska friheter med
nyhetsmaterialet.
Länk:
http://www.dn.se/dn-150-ar/dagens-nyheter-150-ar-i-standig-forandring/
UK, Glasgow
Louise kissed
Sherlock
WE'RE doing some kissing today..." with
those five words Louise Brealey succinctly
explains why she swapped life as a
journalist for acting.
By Angela
McManus
Evenening Times 25/01/2014
She is in Glasgow rehearsing with
Keith Fleming for the Dominic Hill-directed
Miss Julie at the Citizens Theatre, an
adaptation of August Strindberg's thrilling
tale of an upstairs-downstairs liaison
relocated to 1920s Scotland.
Television
audiences will know her better as Molly, the
lab assistant who only has eyes for Benedict
Cumberbatch's character - and kissed him too
- in ratings-winning Sherlock.
"It's
been funny on Twitter because I get tweeted
constantly by people saying I am the
luckiest woman in the world because I've got
to snog Benedict and slap his face," she
giggles.
"It's been mad and the kiss in
episode one of Sherlock was crackers. I have
to say I got my chewing gum out for
Sherlock."
She won't comment further on
the kissing but she does admit she's
enjoying working with Keith on the
production which opens on February 6.
"The play was written in the 1890s and came
out in 1906 - it was incredibly shocking and
completely revolutionary. Strindberg did
away with the interval and all the props
were real, which had never happened before.
It is still shocking now in its original
form but there is something about bringing
it into the 20th century that seems to make
it more resonant. It feels a bit more like
our world."
Red more:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/louise-kissed-sherlock-149591n.23260898
UK
Interview:
Theatre-maker Zinnie Harris on tackling
Strindberg's Miss Julie
New production
of iconic work set for Citizens Theatre
By: Gareth K Vile
The List, 22
January 2014
In this new column,
The List talks to a theatre-maker about a
quality that makes their work distinctive.
The Citizens Theatre, under Dominic Hill's
artistic direction, has established a
reputation for updating classic stories.
Zinnie Harris' version of Strindberg's Miss
Julie was first performed by the National
Theatre of Scotland, but fits perfectly with
Hill's vision of a contemporary theatre that
has a respect for its history. Harris
explains how she tackled this iconic work
What drew you to adapt Strindberg's
classic play?
– I have always been
drawn to Miss Julie as I like plays that
have a strong heroine. But whenever I have
seen a production, I am curious that Julie
is unsympathetic, almost a spoilt brat. I
was interested in seeing whether it was
possible to present her as a victim of
circumstance. I wanted to get under her
skin, so when she kills herself, the full
tragedy is felt.
How did you
approach updating it?
– I choose to set
it in the 1920s in Scotland, in a manor
house. So Miss Julie's father, the Lord of
the Manor, runs a mill, and the workers are
striking. I wanted to explore the
relationship between what was happening in
the world and in the kitchen.
At
the heart of the play is the sexual tryst
between Miss Julie, the young aristocrat,
and her father's valet. Does a contemporary
version offer any new angles on this?
–
I am freer now than Strindberg was! Of
course, that scene should always be an
off-stage moment, but the encounter has been
positive and exciting. They have both been
changed by it, and then it is very cruel how
it plays out for Julie: the valet John has
enjoyed her freedom and chucks it back in
her face. There is this double standard.
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 6–Sat
15 Feb.
Link:
http://www.list.co.uk/article/57976-interview-theatre-maker-zinnie-harris-on-tackling-strindbergs-miss-julie/
USA
My Father's
Legacy: Author Portraits
By Henry Köhler, Son of visual artist
Carl Köhler
The Huffington Post,
01/24/2014
I started
working with my father's, Swedish visual
artist Carl Köhler's (1919-2006), art about
six month after he passed away in that
beautiful Swedish summer of 2006.
He
was born here in Sweden in 1919, and after a
couple of years at law school, he quit and
joined the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine
Arts, where he remained from 1945-51.
My father got several big scholarships so he
could travel to France, Spain and other
places to get inspired by a diverse array of
artists and authors. He painted many French
author portraits, like this one of
Marguerite Duras. He also painted many live
female models, especially in Paris.
At
first, I was shocked about the lack of
interest in my father's name;
[...]
When I did not get the answers I wanted from
the traditional established art institutions
and galleries regarding my father's work, I
looked at alternative venues, and that
resulted in two major exhibitions in
Stockholm, Sweden back in 2008. First, we
exhibited my fathers dance/composer
paintings at the Stockholm Concert Hall, and
after that, I landed a four-month author
portrait exhibition at the August Strindberg
Museum (named after the famous Swedish
author and playwright).
Read
more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-kahler/my-fathers-legacy-author-portraits_b_4654807.html?utm_hp_ref=arts&ir=Arts
USA
Sir Francis
Bacon’s Lonely
Hearts Club
Band:
With a Little
Help from Byron
and Strindberg
By Stuart Mitchner
Town Topics,
January 22, 2014
Lend me your ears
and I’ll sing you
a song, and I’ll
try not to sing
out of key.
—Lennon and
McCartney
There is no
excellent beauty
that hath not some
strangeness in the
proportion.
—Sir Francis Bacon
1561-1626
With the 50th
anniversary of the
Beatles’ arrival
in America
looming, the idea
of an odd couple
like Strindberg
and Byron
performing on the
same imaginary
stage isn’t so far
fetched — at least
not if you recall
the most
celebrated album
cover of its day,
in which the Fab
Four appear
costumed as Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band
standing with a
photo montage of
“infinite riches”
from past and
present, movie
stars and mystics,
poets and
explorers,
celebrities and
occasional lesser
lights. The star
attractions in
this page’s music
hall are some
literary gentlemen
who share the same
birthday, and it
seems only right
that a knight of
the realm should
open and close the
festivities.
Coming all the way
from January 22,
1561, to deliver
words of wisdom on
the strange beauty
of the occasion,
Sir Francis Bacon,
performing an
imperfect
flourish,
announces the main
event: “In this
corner, stage
right, wrapped in
the Greek flag,
Lord Byron
(1788-1824), and
entering stage
left, the pride of
Stockholm, August
Strindberg
(1849-1912).
Read more:
http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2014/01/22/sir-francis-bacons-lonely-hearts-club-band-with-a-little-help-from-byron-and-strindberg/
Polska
165 lat temu
urodził się
August
Strindberg
WP.PL książki
22-01-2014
August Strindberg,
szwedzki pisarz,
dramaturg,
prekursor
nowoczesnego
teatru, był
nieprzejednanym
wrogiem
emancypacji
kobiet. Żonaty
trzy razy w żadnym
związku nie
znalazł szczęścia.
Autor "Historii
małżeńskich" i
"Panny Julii"
urodził się 165
lat temu.
August Strindberg
przyszedł na świat
22 stycznia 1849
roku w Sztokholmie
w ubogiej rodzinie
robotniczej. Kiedy
miał 13 lat,
zmarła mu matka, a
ojciec ożenił się
ponownie. Syn
nigdy nie
zaakceptował nowej
rodziny. Przyszły
pisarz dzieciństwo
wspominał jako
wyjątkowo trudny
okres, naznaczony
niezrozumieniem ze
strony rodziny i
nauczycieli.
Wyjazd na studia
do Uppsali
potraktował jak
wyzwolenie, choć
na jakiś czas
musiał przerwać
naukę z powodu
braku środków.
Studiował estetykę
i języki
nowożytne. W 1872
powstała jego
pierwsza dojrzała
sztuka pt.:
"Mistrz Olaf". Dwa
lata później
rozpoczął pracę w
Bibliotece
Królewskiej w
Sztokholmie.
rindberg był
bywalcem
"Czerwonego
Pokoju" w
restauracji
Bernsa, gdzie
spotykała się
bohema ówczesnego
Sztokholmu.
"Czerwony Pokój"
to także tytuł
pierwszej powieści
Strindberga
wydanej w 1879
roku, która
zwróciła na niego
uwagę publiczności
i krytyki. "Pragnę
ukazać panoramę
społeczeństwa,
którego nigdy nie
pokochałem i które
nigdy mnie nie
pokochało" - pisał
w liście do
redaktora
naczelnego gazety
"Dagens Nyheter"
Strindberg o
"Czerwonym
pokoju". Powieść,
zgodnie z
intencjami autora,
uznano za
skandalizującą.
Czytaj więcej:
http://ksiazki.wp.pl/tytul,165-lat-temu-urodzil-sie-August-Strindberg,wid,20897,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=112150
Italia,
Firenze
CONFERENZA
SUL TEATRO DI
AUGUST
STRINDBERG
Met - News dalle
Pubbliche
amministrazioni
della Toscana
centrale
20/01/2014
Venerdì 24
gennaio, ore
18.30-21.00 circa,
al Teatro Tredici
(Via Nicolodi 2
accanto a Via A.
Cocchi)
Conferenza sul
teatro di August
Strindberg
L’Accademia
Teatrale di
Firenze in
collaborazione con
Il Quartiere 2 del
Comune di Firenze
organizza un
WORKSHOP –
Conferenza sul
Teatro di AUGUST
STRINDBERG
“Signorina Julie”
(1888)
con interventi
interpretati degli
allievi attori
dell’Accademia.
Introduce Prof.ssa
Francesca
Simoncini docente
Storia del Teatro
Università di
Firenze, relatore:
Dott.ssa Emanuela
Agostini docente
di Storia del
Teatro Università
degli Studi di
Firenze, conduce
Pietro Bartolini
venerdì 24 gennaio
ore 18.30-21.00
circa
al Teatro Tredici
(Via Nicolodi 2
accanto a Via A.
Cocchi)
Posti limitati:
ingresso previa
prenotazione a
ludovica.accademia@virgilio.it
e *dal 13 gennaio:
inizio CORSO DI
DIZIONE &
PUBLIC SPEAKING a
cura di Pietro
Bartolini da
Febbraio Inizio di
CORSO DI TRUCCO
PER LA SCENA a
cura di Tiziana
Acomanni
ludovica.accademia@virgilio.it.
Link:
http://met.provincia.fi.it/news.aspx?n=163969
anche:
http://portalegiovani.comune.fi.it/pogio/jsp/portalegiovani_urw_webzine.jsp?ID_REC=14981
Drömmen
om en äkta
Strindberg
En
auktionshandlare i
Gävle ropar in en
trasig tavla för
60 kronor. Tretton
år senare försöker
han fortfarande
bevisa att det
blåskimrande
skärgårdsmotivet
är August
Strindbergs sista
målning.
Av Christian
Daun
SvD 12 januari
2014
Att det luktade
gammal fylla i
bilen var inte
Sven-Erik
Petterssons fel.
Auktionshandlaren
såg alltid till
att hålla sig i
skinnet på
midsommarafton,
och gårdagens
firande hade inte
varit något
undantag. Redan
under
eftermiddagen hade
han gått över till
mineralvatten. Han
ville vara
”körbar” inför
midsommardagsauktionen
i Älvkarleby. Det
hade utvecklat sig
till en fin liten
tradition att åka
dit tillsammans
med kompisarna
Sara, ”Mattan” och
”Vesslan”; den
trio som nu spred
spritångor i hans
orange Ford
Granada.
Innan auktionen
började gick
Sven-Erik runt och
inspekterade
föremålen. Ett
gäng 50-talsstolar
med stoppad sits
väckte hans
intresse. Annars
inget. Ganska
snart knatade hans
uttråkade vänner
bort till Laxöns
hotell för att
kurera kalassjukan
med en silltallrik
och en sup.
Sven-Erik
fortsatte på egen
hand.
På en av väggarna
hängde en tavla
med en intagande
ljusblå kulör.
Sven-Erik lyfte
ned den och såg
ett skärgårdsmotiv
i olja – vackert,
men inget som
gjorde honom
uppspelt. Det
gjorde däremot
signaturen i
tavlans vänstra
hörn. ”Till Mina
med tack” stod
det. Följt av:
”Strindberg”.
Det snurrade till
i skallen. Kunde
det verkligen
vara? Lugnt och
sansat hängde han
tillbaka tavlan,
sedan traskade han
till den bakre
änden av lokalen
och anlade den min
som är varje
auktionshandlarens
främsta tillgång –
den svårt
blaserade.
Målningen ropades
ut som ”trasig
tavla”.
Läs mer:
http://www.svd.se/kultur/drommen-om-en-akta-strindberg_8884792.svd
Deutschland
Eine unmögliche
Liebe
Interkulturelle
Machtspiele in
"JULIA" nach
Strindberg und
Identitätssucher
aus Russland
Hamburger
Abendblatt
10.01.14
Lessingtage 2014
Eine
verhängnisvolle
Affäre zwischen
einer Dame und
ihrem Diener
beschrieb August
Strindberg Ende
des
19.Jahrhunderts in
seinem Drama
"Fräulein Julie".
Die damals so
unerhörte Affäre,
die Gesellschafts-
und Sexualpolitik
vereint, eignet
sich noch heute
als Musterstück
über ungleiche
Seelen und
Sexualbeziehungen.
Christiane Jatahy
hat das Stück aus
dem kühlen
Schweden ins heiße
Brasilien verlegt.
Ihre Inszenierung
zeigt Klassen- und
Rassenkonflikte,
und sie arbeitet
mit Film- und
Theaterelementen.
Julia, eine weiße
verwöhnte Tochter
aus der
Oberschicht (Julia
Bernat), verführt
Jelson, den
schwarzen
Chauffeur ihres
Vaters (Rodrigo
dos Santos). Sie
sind mit- und
nebeneinander
aufgewachsen und
doch Lichtjahre
voneinander
entfernt. Eine
solche Affäre gilt
auch heute noch
nicht als
"unbedenklich",
besonders nicht,
wenn sie in einem
Nobelviertel von
Rio de Janeiro
stattfindet.
Anfänglich ein
Spiel aus
Langeweile und
Lust, wird die
Anziehung beiden
zum Verhängnis. Es
entspinnt sich mit
grausamer
Konsequenz ein
Psychodrama,
angeheizt von
Leidenschaft,
Macht und
Klassenunterschieden.
Bei der auf vielen
Festivals in
Brüssel, Wien,
Zürich
hochgelobten
Adaption von
Strindbergs
Kammerspiel geht
es nicht um die
Tragik einer
"unmöglichen"
Liebe zwischen
Herrin und Diener.
Die Weltenwanderin
Jatahy zeigt die
gesellschaftspolitische
Komponente des
Dramas: Das
Verhältnis von
Herr und Knecht,
Meister und
Sklave. Indem sie
die Rolle der
Herrin mit einer
jungen weißen
Schauspielerin,
jene des Dieners
mit einem
schwarzen
Schauspieler
besetzt, nimmt sie
Bezug auf die
unrühmliche
Geschichte
Brasiliens als
eine der
Drehscheiben des
Sklavenhandels.
Der wurde 1888
zwar verboten,
seine Auswirkungen
sind jedoch bis
heute in der
Gesellschaft
spürbar.
[...]
"JULIA" 30./31.1.,
jew. 20.00, "Der
Russe ist einer,
der Birken liebt"
26.1., 19.00,
27.1., 20.00,
Thalia Gaußstraße
Link:
http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article123726139/Eine-unmoegliche-Liebe.html
USA,
Baltimore (MD)
(review)
Strindberg: A
Life by Sue
Prideaux,
and:
August
Strindberg:
Selected Plays
ed. by
Ann-Charlotte
Gavel Adams and
Anna Westerståhl
Stenport
By David
Krasner
Project Muse
From: Theatre
Journal
Volume 65,
Number 4,
December 2013
pp. 605-607 |
10.1353/tj.2013.0110
In lieu of an
abstract, here is
a brief excerpt of
the content:
Modern genius was
often accompanied
by eccentricity.
Beethoven, van
Gogh, Virginia
Woolf, Nietzsche,
Kleist, and other
benchmark
modernists
frequently
suffered from
mental anguish or
were known for
tumultuous
behavior. August
Strindberg
(1849–1912)
belongs squarely
in this group;
perhaps more than
any genius flying
too close to the
sun, he exploited
the
interconnection
between his
copious talents
and fraught mental
condition. He
occupied center
stage among
emerging vanguard
global modernists
not least because
he took his
madness—identifying
it as his
“inferno”
period—as grist
for his creative
mill. Strindberg’s
prolific output
includes
approximately
sixty plays (if
you count the
fragments),
novels, essays,
paintings,
photography, and
scientific
experiments, and,
although as a
dramatist he is
remembered
primarily for Miss
Julie, many of his
other plays are
also frequently
translated,
studied, and
produced.
The University of
Minnesota Press
has gathered
together a dozen
of Strindberg’s
most
representative
plays in two
volumes,
translated by the
well-respected
Strindberg scholar
Evert Sprinchorn.
This collection
illustrates
Strindberg’s
revolutionary
influence on
modernism in
dramaturgy,
staging, dialogue,
character,
theatricality, and
performance.
According to
editors
Ann-Charlotte
Gavel Adams and
Anna Westerståhl
Stenport,
Strindberg changed
drama in multiple
ways. He
substituted
Aristotle’s
longstanding
classical emphasis
on drama as
plot-driven with
the prima facie of
character; for
Strindberg,
character drives
dramatic action
rather than plot
because character
is, in Adams and
Stenport’s
paraphrase, a
“fickle,
inconclusive,
contradictory, and
dynamic concept”
(x) worthy of
dramatic
exploration.
Theatre for
Strindberg “should
be the primary
vehicle to
challenge our
assumptions of
human rationality
and social
convention” by
virtue of
stressing “the
consciousness of
modern individuals
in a complex
world” (xi).
Strindberg opposed
Enlightenment-based
rationality as
one-dimensional
and antithetical
to the protean
condition of
modernity;
character in the
modern world is
multidimensional,
structured in
fatalistic
fragments and
mixed patterns,
combining extreme
subjectivity with
external
contingencies—in
short, a patchwork
quilt of competing
influences. As
such, Strindberg
can be construed
as a forerunner to
postmodernism even
as he is a bona
fide modernist.
Indeed, the
editors assert, in
Sweden,
“Strindberg is
known as the
writer who
modernized, if not
revolutionized,
the Swedish
language” (xvii)
Read more:
https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/theatre_journal/v065/65.4.krasner.html
Ελλάδα,
Αθήνα (Greece,
Athens)
Ο «Πελεκάνος»
του August
Strindberg στο
Beton 7
NOOZ, Αθήνα 06/01/2014
Η
σκηνοθέτιδα/χορογράφος
Φένια Αποστόλου
(Lydia Lithos
Dancetheatre),
μετά την
σκηνοθεσία της
«Miss Julie»
(επιχορηγούμενη
παράσταση από το
Υπουργείο
Πολιτισμού, 2008),
επιστρέφει στην
ερευνητική
προσέγγιση του
Strindberg με το
έργο «Ο
Πελεκάνος», στον
Πολυχώρο Beton 7.
Στην σκηνοθετική
της προσέγγιση
επικρατούν έντονα
το εξπρεσιονιστικό
στοιχείο, η
ανάδειξη της
ψυχοσύνθεσης των
χαρακτήρων μέσα
από την κίνηση
καθώς και
εικαστικά στοιχεία
του σύγχρονου
Νορβηγού ζωγράφου
Edvard Munch που
ενέπνευσε και τον
ίδιο τον
συγγραφέα.
Ο Strindberg
γράφει τον
«Πελεκάνο» το
1907. Το έργο
αφορά την
αλληλουχία
συγκρούσεων που
προκαλεί ο γάμος
της κόρης και ο
θάνατος του πατέρα
μιας οικογένειας.
Η μητέρα, έχει
υπάρξει ιδιαίτερα
αυταρχική,
στερώντας από τα
παιδιά της όχι
μόνο το μητρικό
γάλα, αλλά και
την αξιοπρεπή
διατροφή και
θέρμανση. Η κόρη
της παντρεύεται
έναν άνδρα, ο
οποίος έχοντας σαν
μοναδικό στόχο να
κερδίσει την
οικογενειακή
περιουσία
αποπλανεί την
μητέρα και την
απομακρύνει από
τον πατέρα, ο
οποίος πεθαίνει
μέσα σε πλήρη
απόγνωση και
μοναξιά. Μετά τον
θάνατό του η κόρη
και ο σύζυγός της
επιστρέφουν
βιαστικά από το
ταξίδι του μέλιτος
για να
συγκατοικήσουν στο
σπίτι με την χήρα
μητέρα και τον γιο
της οικογένειας.
Μια αλυσιδωτή
αντίδραση
γεγονότων θα
οδηγήσει τα δύο
παιδιά να
εναντιωθούν στη
μητέρα και να
απαιτήσουν
δικαιοσύνη και
ελευθερία.
Η παράσταση
διερευνά τους
λόγους για τους
οποίους οι
άνθρωποι
εγκλωβίζονται σε
εμμονές, φοβίες
και ενοχές. Η
πραγματικότητα που
βιώνουμε στην
παιδική μας ηλικία
είναι γνωστό ότι
παίζει καταλυτικό
ρόλο στην
ψυχοσύνθεση και
στην εξέλιξη μας.
Οι ήρωες του
έργου, αιχμάλωτοι
μιας μοίρας που
τους παρουσιάστηκε
ως μοναδική,
μολονότι
καταραμένη,
παλεύουν στα τυφλά
για να ανακαλύψουν
την αλήθεια που
δεν ειπώθηκε ποτέ,
ώστε να μπορέσουν
να διακρίνουν
εναλλακτικές
επιλογές και να
ενηλικιωθούν
σωστά.
Η σκηνοθέτις
επιχειρεί να
εισάγει τον θεατή
σε μία εφιαλτική
wonderland, στην
οποία οι ήρωες,
δέσμιοι των παθών
και των φόβων
τους, είναι
αναγκασμένοι να
παρατηρούν την
ίδια μέρα να
επαναλαμβάνεται
αδιάκοπα, μέχρι να
βρουν το θάρρος να
αντιμετωπίσουν την
αλήθεια.
Διανομή:
Μαίρη Νάνου (Ελίς)
Παναγιώτης
Μπρατάκος
(Φρέντρικ)
Μαριάννα Λιανού
(Γέρντα)
Θανάσης
Μεγαλόπουλος
(Άξελ)
Ηλίας Μπαγεώργος
(Πελεκάνος)
Μαριάννα Λιανού,
Θανάσης
Μεγαλόπουλος,
Πάνος Μπρατάκος
(Μαργκρέτ)
Link:
http://www.nooz.gr/entertainment/o-pelekanos-tou-august-strindberg-sto-beton-7
UK, Scotland
First lady of
the night
Eugene
O'Neill's
autobiographical
play Long Day's
Journey Into
Night is widely
considered to be
the Nobel
laureate's
masterwork.
By Mark Brown
The Herald
Scotland, Sunday
5 January 2014
First performed in
Stockholm in 1956
(three years after
the Irish-American
dramatist's
death), the
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
drama had its
British premiere
at the Royal
Lyceum Theatre, as
part of the
Edinburgh
International
Festival, on
September 8, 1958,
in a production
starring Alan
Bates as Edmund
Tyrone (the Eugene
O'Neill role) and,
to great acclaim,
Gwen
Ffrangçon-Davies
as Mary Tyrone
(the barely
fictionalised
mother character).
[...]
Kent's enthusiasm
for the play is
anchored firmly in
her tremendous
faith in O'Neill
as a writer - a
faith which she
contrasts with her
feelings towards
the playwright's
major influence,
the great Swedish
dramatist August
Strindberg.
Recently, she was
on the verge of
performing in
Strindberg's play
The Dance Of
Death, but the
project was
abandoned.
"I kept reading
the play and
asking myself,
'How much do I
trust this
writer?' I have to
be honest and say,
in the end, I
didn't. I read it
in four different
translations, and
I kept thinking,
'I think he needed
to go back and
work on this
again.' By
contrast, what I
feel about Eugene
O'Neill is that I
trust his writing
hugely… You trust
that those words
are there for a
reason, and if you
say them the way
that he hears
them, they work,
and that's
lovely."
Read more:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/first-lady-of-the-night.23069143
