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 "€œGreater 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 artists’ genius and foibles. 
“Being Scandinavian, of course, Strindberg has always been familiar to me,” 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 ”Stormlandskap”, 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. 
”Stormlandskap” 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 vía 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 días. 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 crítico de teatro de The Guardian Michael Billington en su artículo 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 Julie’s and her dog’s needs. She also behaves in a subordinate ways towards John, serving his meals and preparing his cloths each day. She does not have John’s 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 Strindberg’s famed play, writer/director Liv Ullmann takes us back to 1890s Ireland to explore the feudal barriers that used to prevent true love’s connection, but if Strindberg’s story is any indication, it might have been for a good reason. 
Every time you pray Ullmann’s 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. There’s 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 won’t 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 Julie’. 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 Julie’ 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 

 

 


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 

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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 

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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 

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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

 


Argentina, Buenos Aires

 Érica Rivas e 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.
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– 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.
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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.

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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

 



Deutschland, Frankfurt

 Einen Ausweg gibt es nicht

Von Gerd Klee
Wiesbadener Tagblatt, 31.03.2014

THEATER Frankfurter Kammerspiele präsentieren August Strindbergs „Ein Traumspiel“ in klug bearbeiteter Fassung

FRANKFURT - Der Anfang hat Methode: In einem schier endlos erscheinenden Eröffnungsbild schiebt sich der Vorhang auf und zu. Von der Bühnendecke strahlt ein in den Farben ständig wechselnder Lichtdom. Alle Darsteller befinden sich an Klavieren und versammeln sich schließlich um den Musiker in der Mitte (Kornelius Heidebrecht), um dort einen mantrahaften Gesang anzustimmen, der das Publikum „herunterholt“ aus den Bildern des Alltags. Der Sound wird den Zuschauer den ganzen Abend lang begleiten, immer wieder treffen sich die Protagonisten und stimmen ihn gemeinsam an – immer wieder öffnet sich der Vorhang, schließt sich wieder.

Keine Chronologie
So beginnt „Ein Traumspiel“ nach August Strindberg – in einer von Regisseur Philipp Preuss klug bearbeiteten Fassung – in den Frankfurter Kammerspielen. Und es ist ein guter Trick der Beruhigung, der aufnahmefähig macht für das, was jetzt kommen wird. Denn nun erwarten uns albtraumhafte Szenen, wie wir sie nur aus Träumen kennen, in denen alles zu allem und nichts zu nichts gehört. Es gibt keine Chronologie, keinen inhaltlichen Zusammenhang – alles ist austauschbar,

Lesen Sie mehr: http://www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de/lokales/kultur/theater/einen-ausweg-gibt-es-nicht_14015852.htm
 



Deutschland, Frankfurt

 Wer lebt, der macht sich automatisch schuldig
Von Astrid Biesemeier
Frankfurer Neue Presse, 31.03.2014

August Strindbergs „Ein Traumspiel“ hatte Premiere am Schauspiel Frankfurt, inszeniert von Philipp Preuss mit viel Versponnenheit.

Es steht nicht gut um den Menschen. Oder, um mit der Göttertochter Indra zu klagen: „Es ist schade um die Menschen!“ Mit „Ein Traumspiel“ hat August Strindberg 1901 eine alles andere als optimistische Zustandsbeschreibung der Welt verfasst. In seinem Stück lässt er die Göttertochter Indra auf die Erde hinabsteigen. Hier erlebt sie Liebe und Ehe als Last und Leid, soziale Ungerechtigkeit, Wissenschaftsversagen und auch, dass leben bedeutet: schuldig werden. Strindbergs Werk folgt dabei der Logik des Traums: Eine lineare Handlung ist ihm fremd.

Lesen Sie mehr: http://www.fnp.de/nachrichten/kultur/Wer-lebt-der-macht-sich-automatisch-schuldig;art679,794736

 
Deutschland, Frankfurt
"Traumspiel": Feuchte Packung
Schauspiel – Philipp Preuss lässt bei Strindberg den Schlamm spritzen

Von Johannes Breckner
Echo, 30. März 2014

Träume sind selten schön und noch seltener logisch. Am Frankfurter Schauspiel nutzt Philipp Preuss Strindbergs Stück für einen aufwendigen Bilderzauber. Aber den Ehrgeiz, eine Geschichte zu erzählen, wendet er nicht auf.

FRANKFURT. Betrachten wir diesen Abend einmal aus der Sicht der Schauspieler. Auch schöne Berufe können ja manchmal schwer sein. Wer im Ensemble des Frankfurter Schauspiels seinen Namen auf der Besetzungsliste für August Strindbergs „Traumspiel“ gefunden hat, den erwartet eine Menge Text, dessen verschachtelte, in variierten Wiederholungsschleifen angelegte Anlage die Konzentration fordert.

Lesen Sie mehr: http://www.echo-online.de/freizeit/kunstkultur/theater/schauspiel/Traumspiel-Feuchte-Packung;art1090,4900529

 


Peter Harrysson gör sin Strindbergdebut
 Peter Harryson och Åsa-Lena Hjelm stimulerar varandra till storspel i Strindbergs "Dödsdansen", skriver Kristjan Saag.
Av Kristjan Saag
GT, 29 mar 2014

Teater
 DÖDSDANSEN
Av August Strindberg
Regi: Erik Ståhlberg
Göteborgs Dramatiska Teater

Elakhet är en dygd, åtminstone på teatern.
De bästa replikerna är inte högtidliga förkunnelser om nåd och rättvisa utan giftigheter droppade ur mungipan och sanningar utslungade i ansiktet med full kraft.
Strindberg kunde tekniken och i "Dödsdansen" serverar han båda sorterna: artillerikaptenen Edgar står för den yviga varianten, hans hustru Alice för de mer raffinerade sticken. Båda pinar livet ur varann under ett knappt dygn. Innan vi ges nöjet att följa dem har de gjort detsamma i tjugofem år.
Erik Ståhlberg sätter upp "Dödsdansen" på Göteborgs Dramatiska Teater - i samverkan med Göteborgs Stadsteater och Folkteatern - och har, i Peter Harryson och Åsa-Lena Hjelm, ett verkligt radarpar: han med sin naturliga fysiska pondus som extraresurs, hon med sin klassiska deadpan-image: jag tror inte ett ord av vad du säger, och, för resten, jag bryr mig inte...

Läs mer: http://www.expressen.se/gt/kultur/peter-harrysson-gor-sin-strindbergdebut/

 



 Nederland

 De Pelikaan als repeterend reclamespotje

Door Inge Schouten
Toneel blog, 29 maart 2014

De deuren van de grote zaal van de Stadsschouwburg zijn kort voor aanvang nog dicht, wat bevreemdend werkt. We gaan zo naar De Pelikaan van August Strindberg, onder regie van Susanne Kennedy, gespeeld door een cast van Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Twee studenten pedagogiek naast me willen ‘iets leuks, nee, interessants’ zien. De grote zaal van de Stadsschouwburg is gevuld met recensielezers, NRC vooral.
Op het toneel een poppenhuis, met vier speellagen, een kruipruimte als kelder, een woonkamer met een bank, een bovenverdieping met een bed en een hobbelpaard, een kenmerk van Susanne Kennedy. Filmbeelden worden op een fijn gazen wand geprojecteerd die het toneel overspant alsof de dieren van het publiek en toneel gescheiden moeten blijven.

Lees meer: http://toneel.blog.nl/gezien/2014/03/29/de-pelikaan

 
Canada, Vancouver (BC)

 It’s impossible to take your eyes off of Mies Julie

By Colin Thomas
Straight.com, Mar 27, 214

Written and directed by Yaël Farber. Based on Miss Julie by August Strindberg. Produced by the Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Capetown in association with the South African State Theatre. At the Cultch’s Historic Theatre on Wednesday, March 26. Continues until April 19
Mies Julie is as essential as blood.
In this South African production, writer and director Yaël Farber reimagines August Strindberg’s problematic 1888 classic, setting it in contemporary South Africa on Freedom Day, the anniversary of the election of Nelson Mandela.
As in the original, Julie is the daughter of a landowner—in this case a Boer farmer who is trying to force black squatters off territory that they claim his family stole.

Read more: http://www.straight.com/arts/615741/its-impossible-take-your-eyes-mies-julie

 
Canada, Vancouver (BC)

 Theatre review: A sexy, bloody, explosive South African Mies Julie
By: Jerry Wasserman
The Province, March 27, 2014

Sex and race remain a volatile mix in post-apartheid South Africa. Throw in issues of class, politics, history, family and land ownership. Bring to a boil in the intimate confines of The Cultch, and the potent theatrical chemistry of Mies Julie threatens to blow the roof off the place.
Director Yaël Farber and her extraordinary Baxter Theatre company from Cape Town make their Canadian debut here after wowing critics and audiences in London and New York with Farber’s South African adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie.
Mies Julie is an absolute stunner.

Read more: http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/03/27/theatre-review-a-sexy-bloody-explosive-south-african-mies-julie/

Mies Julie
Where: Historic Theatre at The Cultch, 1895 Venables St.
When: To April 19
Tickets: From $31 at tickets.thecultch.com

 



 USA, Minot (ND)
MSU to present play ‘Miss Julie’

Minot Daily News, March 27, 2014

Minot State University Theatre Arts Program presents an adaptation of August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" April 8-12 at 7:30 p.m. in the MSU Black Box Theater. Doors will open at 7 p.m.

Link: http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/593970/MSU-to-present-play--Miss-Julie-.html?nav=5001

 
USA, Chicago (ILL)

 Love, hate whirl couple in ‘Dance of Death’ at Writers’ Theatre

By Catey Sullivan
Winnetka Talk, March 29, 2014

“Dance of Death.” The title is about as bleak as it gets. But in Conor McPherson’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s scathing exploration of a supremely twisted marriage, there’s humor embedded in virtually every caustic line of dialogue.
As the forerunner of shows ranging from Samuel Becket’s poetic, profoundly absurd “Waiting for Godot” to Edward Albee’s magnificently bitter comedy “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Dance of Death” is a complicated beast, a fanged drama that’s at once a love story and a hate story.
Opening in previews April 1 at Writers’ Theatre’s tiny back-of-the-book-store space, “Dance of Death” promises audience an intense glimpse into the games intimate people play.
For director Henry Wishcamper, the tale of the tyrannical military bureaucrat Edgar (Larry Yando) and his supremely manipulative wife Alice (Shannon Cochran) dances a line between viciousness and love. Originally penned by Strindberg in 1900, “Dance of Death” was far ahead of its time, Cochran asserts.

Read more: http://winnetka.suntimes.com/things-to-do/arts/death-DIN-03272014:article

 
Canada, Vancouver (BC)

 Hot Ticket – Mies Julie

 By Jennifer van Evra
The Globe and Mail, Mar. 26 2014

Twenty years after apartheid was officially abolished, its effects still simmer under modern South African society – and one night it all boils over in a Cape Karoo kitchen in the explosive play Mies Julie.
Adapted from the August Strindberg classic Miss Julie, the play follows Julie, the white daughter of a South African landowner, as she kindles a relationship with John (Bongile Mantsai), a black servant. What results not only crosses the boundaries of race and class, but also of geography and family as the two wrestle over an upbringing shared by John’s mother, Christine (Thokozile Ntshinga), and the territory claimed by their ancestors.

Reaad more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/hot-ticket-mies-julie/article17690045/?cmpid=rss1
 

 

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


 Februari 2014



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

 




China, Hong Kong

Review: Mies Julie

By David Walter
Time Out, Hong Kong, 23 Feb 2014

Mies Julie, which runs between February 18 and 27 at the HKAPA, takes its cues from Miss Julie, August Strindberg’s 19th century battle of the sexes and social class. Writer-director Yael Farber transposes Strindberg’s story from Sweden to post-apartheid South Africa -- and her triumph is that this switch-up doesn’t feel like a gimmick but rather an escalation of an already thrilling play.
Julie (Hilda Cronje) is a restless young white woman whose family employs Christine (Thoko Ntshinga) and her son John (Bongile Mantse) as servants. John and Christine are black and poor; Christine’s ancestors, who once lived freely on the land now owned by whites, haunt her from below. On the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, Julie and John sleep together – and then destroy each other.

Read more: http://www.timeout.com.hk/stage/features/64548/review-mies-julie.html

Mies Julie, HKAPA, Feb 18-27. Tickets: $480-$220; urbtix.hk.

 



USA, San Rafael (CA)

THEATER REVIEW: Strindberg's 'Miss Julie' & Two Short Plays

By Ken Bullock
The Berkeley Daily Planet, Sunday February 23, 2014

Marin Onstage, which put on a remarkable version of Ibsen's modern classic, 'Doll House,' reviewed here in November—and all the more remarkable as a small, independent company taking on such a work and giving it a fresh, compelling staging—continues their season of plays about women with three very different short plays, including the great—and not so short—'Miss Julie,' one of the salvos Strindberg directed in part at Ibsen, a decade after 'Doll House,' one of the first truly modern plays, displaying in rare, exciting dramatic form with a small cast both the war of the sexes and the class struggle.

Read more: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2014-02-21/article/41856?headline=THEATER-REVIEW-Strindberg-s-Miss-Julie-Two-Short-Plays--By-Ken-Bullock

 



När Gud blir sambo med kulturen
I det sekulariserade Sverige är det allt färre som går in i en kyrka för att möta Gud – men känslan av helighet består liksom viljan att skydda byggnaden. Religionen har lämnat plats för kulturarvet.

Av Henrik Lindblad Eva Löfgren
SvD 23 februari 2014

Paris 1883. En trött och febrig August Strindberg irrar runt på boulevarderna i hällande regn. Plötsligt hägrar en kyrka och han går dit, inte för att be utan för en stunds ro. Men i stället för tystnad hör han skrik och väsen, ett avgrundens larm: ”Vilka syner? Har han gått galet? Kyrkan ändrad till magasin! Där de lågo, de dödes gravar, är nu murad en vattenbassin; där en turbin med skovlar kavar, där en hydraulisk press är i gång.” Strindberg är i den gamla klosterkyrkan S:t Martin des Champs, under revolutionen omvandlad till fängelse och 1794 till museum för teknik och vetenskap, Musée des Arts et Métiers.

Läs mer: http://www.svd.se/kultur/understrecket/nar-gud-blir-sambo-med-kulturen_3297010.svd

Gå på en virtuell rundtur i S:t Martin des Champs: http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/visitevirtuelle/

 



USA, San Rafael (CA)

Theater review: Marin Onstage runs long with 'Evening of Short Plays'

By Sam Hurwitt
Marin Independent Journal 02/19/2014

Marin Onstage's latest show "An Evening of Short Plays" is a continuation of the Modern Classic Canon Series the company started in November with Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House." The title of the current production, however, is misleading.
One of the plays, August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," is 90 minutes long and would normally be performed as a stand-alone piece. The other two, Bertolt Brecht's "The Jewish Wife" and Susan Glaspell's "Trifles," actually are short plays, bringing the evening to a fairly reasonable 2½ hours. But "Miss Julie" is performed last, as the full meal after a round of appetizers, so anyone who comes out of intermission thinking the first part of the bill might set the pace for the last part is in for a surprise. The arrangement of the evening makes "Miss Julie" feel much longer than it actually is.

Read more: http://www.marinij.com/entertainment/ci_25174813/theater-review-marin-onstage-runs-long-evening-short
 



När folk skrev brev
Av Christian Dahlgren
Corren, 18 feb 03:08

"Brev skola aldrig bäras lösa i fickorna. De förlora sin form av bliva skrynkliga", förklarade publicisten och bokförläggaren J L Saxon. Förr skrev ju man brev, det var en konstart i sig. Skrynklig post tydde på dålig etikett.

Voltaire, filosofen, tänkte inte enbart lärt, stort och vackert. Han skrev så många brev att man kan undra hur tiden räckte till för annan sysselsättning. Postgången gick över hela Europa, inte sällan med skvaller. En julidag 1734 avrundade Voltaire en försändelse med orden: "Nu måste jag sluta, ty det är det trettionde brevet jag skriver i dag".
Strindberg var också flitig med breven. Omkring 10 000 finns bevarade, publicerade i 22 tjocka band till eftervärldens fromma. "Jag är bara anträffbar i mina skrifter, ej personligen", skriver han 1908 till den tyske författaren René Schickele.

Läs mer: http://www.corren.se/asikter/ledare/nar-folk-skrev-brev-6749671-artikel.aspx

 



USA

First Look: Jessica Chastain & Colin Farrell In Liv Ullman's 'Miss Julie'

By Kevin Jagernauth
IndieWire, Playlist, februari 16, 2014

While we didn't see much of Jessica Chastain at the multiplex in 2013, aside from the horror thing "Mama," 2014 promises to bring us a whole lot of the actress. Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" is, of course, already scheduled and the now-filming "A Most Violent Year" is expected to be ready for the awards season, also the dual movie "The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby His & Hers" will likely see some kind of release in the next twelve months. And one more to keep an eye out for, at least on the festival circuit, is Liv Ullman's "Miss Julie."
The directorial effort from the legendary actress is her first in over twelve years, an adaptation of the famed August Strindberg play, which has Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton co-starring. Needless to say, all the ingredients make this one we're eager to see, and these first images from the film are a nice tease.

Read more: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-look-jessica-chastain-colin-farrell-in-liv-ullmans-miss-julie-20140216

 

  Januari 2014


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/

 

 

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


 Februari 2014



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

 




China, Hong Kong

 Review: Mies Julie

By David Walter
Time Out, Hong Kong, 23 Feb 2014

Mies Julie, which runs between February 18 and 27 at the HKAPA, takes its cues from Miss Julie, August Strindberg’s 19th century battle of the sexes and social class. Writer-director Yael Farber transposes Strindberg’s story from Sweden to post-apartheid South Africa -- and her triumph is that this switch-up doesn’t feel like a gimmick but rather an escalation of an already thrilling play.
Julie (Hilda Cronje) is a restless young white woman whose family employs Christine (Thoko Ntshinga) and her son John (Bongile Mantse) as servants. John and Christine are black and poor; Christine’s ancestors, who once lived freely on the land now owned by whites, haunt her from below. On the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, Julie and John sleep together – and then destroy each other.

Read more: http://www.timeout.com.hk/stage/features/64548/review-mies-julie.html

Mies Julie, HKAPA, Feb 18-27. Tickets: $480-$220; urbtix.hk.

 



USA, San Rafael (CA)

 THEATER REVIEW: Strindberg's 'Miss Julie' & Two Short Plays

 By Ken Bullock
The Berkeley Daily Planet, Sunday February 23, 2014

Marin Onstage, which put on a remarkable version of Ibsen's modern classic, 'Doll House,' reviewed here in November—and all the more remarkable as a small, independent company taking on such a work and giving it a fresh, compelling staging—continues their season of plays about women with three very different short plays, including the great—and not so short—'Miss Julie,' one of the salvos Strindberg directed in part at Ibsen, a decade after 'Doll House,' one of the first truly modern plays, displaying in rare, exciting dramatic form with a small cast both the war of the sexes and the class struggle.

Read more: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2014-02-21/article/41856?headline=THEATER-REVIEW-Strindberg-s-Miss-Julie-Two-Short-Plays--By-Ken-Bullock

 



När Gud blir sambo med kulturen
I det sekulariserade Sverige är det allt färre som går in i en kyrka för att möta Gud – men känslan av helighet består liksom viljan att skydda byggnaden. Religionen har lämnat plats för kulturarvet.

Av Henrik Lindblad Eva Löfgren
SvD 23 februari 2014

Paris 1883. En trött och febrig August Strindberg irrar runt på boulevarderna i hällande regn. Plötsligt hägrar en kyrka och han går dit, inte för att be utan för en stunds ro. Men i stället för tystnad hör han skrik och väsen, ett avgrundens larm: ”Vilka syner? Har han gått galet? Kyrkan ändrad till magasin! Där de lågo, de dödes gravar, är nu murad en vattenbassin; där en turbin med skovlar kavar, där en hydraulisk press är i gång.” Strindberg är i den gamla klosterkyrkan S:t Martin des Champs, under revolutionen omvandlad till fängelse och 1794 till museum för teknik och vetenskap, Musée des Arts et Métiers.

Läs mer: http://www.svd.se/kultur/understrecket/nar-gud-blir-sambo-med-kulturen_3297010.svd

Gå på en virtuell rundtur i S:t Martin des Champs: http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/visitevirtuelle/

 



USA, San Rafael (CA)

 Theater review: Marin Onstage runs long with 'Evening of Short Plays'

By Sam Hurwitt
Marin Independent Journal 02/19/2014

Marin Onstage's latest show "An Evening of Short Plays" is a continuation of the Modern Classic Canon Series the company started in November with Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House." The title of the current production, however, is misleading.
One of the plays, August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," is 90 minutes long and would normally be performed as a stand-alone piece. The other two, Bertolt Brecht's "The Jewish Wife" and Susan Glaspell's "Trifles," actually are short plays, bringing the evening to a fairly reasonable 2½ hours. But "Miss Julie" is performed last, as the full meal after a round of appetizers, so anyone who comes out of intermission thinking the first part of the bill might set the pace for the last part is in for a surprise. The arrangement of the evening makes "Miss Julie" feel much longer than it actually is.

Read more: http://www.marinij.com/entertainment/ci_25174813/theater-review-marin-onstage-runs-long-evening-short
 



När folk skrev brev

Av Christian Dahlgren
Corren, 18 feb 03:08

"Brev skola aldrig bäras lösa i fickorna. De förlora sin form av bliva skrynkliga", förklarade publicisten och bokförläggaren J L Saxon. Förr skrev ju man brev, det var en konstart i sig. Skrynklig post tydde på dålig etikett.

Voltaire, filosofen, tänkte inte enbart lärt, stort och vackert. Han skrev så många brev att man kan undra hur tiden räckte till för annan sysselsättning. Postgången gick över hela Europa, inte sällan med skvaller. En julidag 1734 avrundade Voltaire en försändelse med orden: "Nu måste jag sluta, ty det är det trettionde brevet jag skriver i dag".
Strindberg var också flitig med breven. Omkring 10 000 finns bevarade, publicerade i 22 tjocka band till eftervärldens fromma. "Jag är bara anträffbar i mina skrifter, ej personligen", skriver han 1908 till den tyske författaren René Schickele.

Läs mer: http://www.corren.se/asikter/ledare/nar-folk-skrev-brev-6749671-artikel.aspx

 



USA

 First Look: Jessica Chastain & Colin Farrell In Liv Ullman's 'Miss Julie'

By Kevin Jagernauth
IndieWire, Playlist, februari 16, 2014

While we didn't see much of Jessica Chastain at the multiplex in 2013, aside from the horror thing "Mama," 2014 promises to bring us a whole lot of the actress. Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" is, of course, already scheduled and the now-filming "A Most Violent Year" is expected to be ready for the awards season, also the dual movie "The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby His & Hers" will likely see some kind of release in the next twelve months. And one more to keep an eye out for, at least on the festival circuit, is Liv Ullman's "Miss Julie."
The directorial effort from the legendary actress is her first in over twelve years, an adaptation of the famed August Strindberg play, which has Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton co-starring. Needless to say, all the ingredients make this one we're eager to see, and these first images from the film are a nice tease.

Read more: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-look-jessica-chastain-colin-farrell-in-liv-ullmans-miss-julie-20140216

 

 Januari 2014


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.
info: 3355204807- 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
 
 

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.
info: 3355204807- 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
 

 

 

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

 




China, Hong Kong

 Review: Mies Julie

By David Walter
Time Out, Hong Kong, 23 Feb 2014

Mies Julie, which runs between February 18 and 27 at the HKAPA, takes its cues from Miss Julie, August Strindberg’s 19th century battle of the sexes and social class. Writer-director Yael Farber transposes Strindberg’s story from Sweden to post-apartheid South Africa -- and her triumph is that this switch-up doesn’t feel like a gimmick but rather an escalation of an already thrilling play.
Julie (Hilda Cronje) is a restless young white woman whose family employs Christine (Thoko Ntshinga) and her son John (Bongile Mantse) as servants. John and Christine are black and poor; Christine’s ancestors, who once lived freely on the land now owned by whites, haunt her from below. On the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, Julie and John sleep together – and then destroy each other.

Read more: http://www.timeout.com.hk/stage/features/64548/review-mies-julie.html

Mies Julie, HKAPA, Feb 18-27. Tickets: $480-$220; urbtix.hk.

 



USA, San Rafael (CA)

 THEATER REVIEW: Strindberg's 'Miss Julie' & Two Short Plays

By Ken Bullock
The Berkeley Daily Planet, Sunday February 23, 2014

Marin Onstage, which put on a remarkable version of Ibsen's modern classic, 'Doll House,' reviewed here in November—and all the more remarkable as a small, independent company taking on such a work and giving it a fresh, compelling staging—continues their season of plays about women with three very different short plays, including the great—and not so short—'Miss Julie,' one of the salvos Strindberg directed in part at Ibsen, a decade after 'Doll House,' one of the first truly modern plays, displaying in rare, exciting dramatic form with a small cast both the war of the sexes and the class struggle.

Read more: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2014-02-21/article/41856?headline=THEATER-REVIEW-Strindberg-s-Miss-Julie-Two-Short-Plays--By-Ken-Bullock

 



När Gud blir sambo med kulturen
I det sekulariserade Sverige är det allt färre som går in i en kyrka för att möta Gud – men känslan av helighet består liksom viljan att skydda byggnaden. Religionen har lämnat plats för kulturarvet.

Av Henrik Lindblad Eva Löfgren
SvD 23 februari 2014

Paris 1883. En trött och febrig August Strindberg irrar runt på boulevarderna i hällande regn. Plötsligt hägrar en kyrka och han går dit, inte för att be utan för en stunds ro. Men i stället för tystnad hör han skrik och väsen, ett avgrundens larm: ”Vilka syner? Har han gått galet? Kyrkan ändrad till magasin! Där de lågo, de dödes gravar, är nu murad en vattenbassin; där en turbin med skovlar kavar, där en hydraulisk press är i gång.” Strindberg är i den gamla klosterkyrkan S:t Martin des Champs, under revolutionen omvandlad till fängelse och 1794 till museum för teknik och vetenskap, Musée des Arts et Métiers.

Läs mer: http://www.svd.se/kultur/understrecket/nar-gud-blir-sambo-med-kulturen_3297010.svd

Gå på en virtuell rundtur i S:t Martin des Champs: http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/visitevirtuelle/

 



USA, San Rafael (CA)

 Theater review: Marin Onstage runs long with 'Evening of Short Plays'

By Sam Hurwitt
Marin Independent Journal 02/19/2014

Marin Onstage's latest show "An Evening of Short Plays" is a continuation of the Modern Classic Canon Series the company started in November with Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House." The title of the current production, however, is misleading.
One of the plays, August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," is 90 minutes long and would normally be performed as a stand-alone piece. The other two, Bertolt Brecht's "The Jewish Wife" and Susan Glaspell's "Trifles," actually are short plays, bringing the evening to a fairly reasonable 2½ hours. But "Miss Julie" is performed last, as the full meal after a round of appetizers, so anyone who comes out of intermission thinking the first part of the bill might set the pace for the last part is in for a surprise. The arrangement of the evening makes "Miss Julie" feel much longer than it actually is.

Read more: http://www.marinij.com/entertainment/ci_25174813/theater-review-marin-onstage-runs-long-evening-short
 



 När folk skrev brev

Av Christian Dahlgren
Corren, 18 feb 03:08

"Brev skola aldrig bäras lösa i fickorna. De förlora sin form av bliva skrynkliga", förklarade publicisten och bokförläggaren J L Saxon. Förr skrev ju man brev, det var en konstart i sig. Skrynklig post tydde på dålig etikett.

Voltaire, filosofen, tänkte inte enbart lärt, stort och vackert. Han skrev så många brev att man kan undra hur tiden räckte till för annan sysselsättning. Postgången gick över hela Europa, inte sällan med skvaller. En julidag 1734 avrundade Voltaire en försändelse med orden: "Nu måste jag sluta, ty det är det trettionde brevet jag skriver i dag".
Strindberg var också flitig med breven. Omkring 10 000 finns bevarade, publicerade i 22 tjocka band till eftervärldens fromma. "Jag är bara anträffbar i mina skrifter, ej personligen", skriver han 1908 till den tyske författaren René Schickele.

Läs mer: http://www.corren.se/asikter/ledare/nar-folk-skrev-brev-6749671-artikel.aspx

 



USA

 First Look: Jessica Chastain & Colin Farrell In Liv Ullman's 'Miss Julie'

By Kevin Jagernauth
IndieWire, Playlist, februari 16, 2014
While we didn't see much of Jessica Chastain at the multiplex in 2013, aside from the horror thing "Mama," 2014 promises to bring us a whole lot of the actress. Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" is, of course, already scheduled and the now-filming "A Most Violent Year" is expected to be ready for the awards season, also the dual movie "The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby His & Hers" will likely see some kind of release in the next twelve months. And one more to keep an eye out for, at least on the festival circuit, is Liv Ullman's "Miss Julie."
The directorial effort from the legendary actress is her first in over twelve years, an adaptation of the famed August Strindberg play, which has Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton co-starring. Needless to say, all the ingredients make this one we're eager to see, and these first images from the film are a nice tease.

Read more: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-look-jessica-chastain-colin-farrell-in-liv-ullmans-miss-julie-20140216

 


 

UK, Glasgow

 Theatre review: Miss Julie

By David Hepburn
Kirkintilloch Herald the 15 February 2014

Strindberg’s classic play ‘Miss Julie’ is one which is always ripe for adaptation - dealing with universal themes of sex, love, class and power.
Originally set in 19th century Sweden, the titular lead is a young aristocrat lusting after her father’s footman at a servants dance.
But he’s already engaged to the estate’s cook - who remains in the background throughout - and is painfully aware of the scandal that such indiscretions can cause.
As passions erupt, the usual boundaries between social classes begin to blur before falling apart completely.
Premiering at Glasgow’s Citizen’s Theatre, Zinnie Harris’s version transfers the action to early 20th century Scotland, the unseen Scandinavian Count replaced by a Highland Laird.

Read more: http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/what-s-on/leisure/theatre-review-miss-julie-1-3306731
 


Australia
Theatre review: Mies Julie (Perth Festival)

By Clive Paget
Limelight Feb 14, 2014

Octagon Theatre, Perth

“You think my womb is your land-grab?” screams a white woman to the black man with whom she’s just spent her virgin night. If she carries his child, that might be his one and only way of reclaiming his ancestral home, taken generations back by her father’s family. As an isolated incident it may seem a far cry from Miss Julie, August Strindberg’s 19th-century play of repressed sexuality and class warfare, but apart from the added issue of colonialism, Mies Julie, Yaël Farber’s startling contemporary update is true to its roots and the best, most searing version of the play that I can recall.
Farber’s startling production comes to the Perth Festival trailing a string of five-star reviews garnered since its Baxter Theatre Company premiere in Cape Town back in 2012, but this electric shock of a staging is more than capable of standing behind every one of them.

Read more: http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/372392,theatre-review-mies-julie-perth-festival.aspx


Deutschland

Ringeisen-Gymnasium
 In den Fäden des Lebens verfangen
„Gespenstersonate“ von August Strindberg im Kellertheater

Augsburger Allgemaine 14. Februar 2014

Ursberg Der Q11-Kurs Theater und Film – geleitet von Lucia Mehr – möchte mit der „Gespenstersonate“ von August Strindberg schöne Minuten im Kellertheater des Ringeisen Gymnasiums bescheren. Aufführungen sind am 21. und 22. Februar jeweils um 19.30 Uhr und am 23. Februar um 14.30 Uhr.
Das 1908 uraufgeführte Kammerspiel des schwedischen Autors dreht sich um den alten Patriarchen Hummel, der ein Leben lang „schwarze“ Fäden in seinem sozialen Umfeld gesponnen hat, um sich selbst Vorteile zu verschaffen. Bevor er stirbt, möchte er jedoch seine uneheliche Tochter, die nichts von ihrem tatsächlichen Vater weiß, glücklich sehen – und so kommt es zu einer erneuten Verstrickung, diesmal mit dem Studenten Archenholz als Schachfigur, in der Hummel wieder meint, die Fäden in der Hand zu haben.
Sitzplatzreservierungen sind ab Montag, 17. Februar, telefonisch unter 08281/923609 zu den Öffnungszeiten des Schulsekretariats möglich. (zg)

Link: http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/krumbach/In-den-Faeden-des-Lebens-verfangen-id28808057.html
 


China - 中国, Hong Kong - 香港

Playwright Yaël Farber introduces colonial politics into Strindberg's Miss Julie
South African playwright-director introduces race and colonial politics into August Strindberg's Miss Julie, reports Edmund Lee

By Edmund Lee
South China Morning Post 13.02.14

YAËL FARBER REMEMBERS hearing the talk about a controversial production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie when she was a teenager in South Africa during the 1980s. The 43-year-old playwright and theatre director also recalls reading the play in drama school in her early 20s, noting the "very little impression" that this 1888 tragedy about class division and sexual politics made on her back then.
It wasn't until Farber watched one of her students attempt to stage several scenes from the play that everything began to click. "The power of the work was awoken in me, and I noticed its untapped potential," says Farber of her enlightening experience at the National Theatre School of Canada. "The hunger to create something radically new from the material to speak of South Africa was born."
Almost as universal as Romeo and Juliet, despite a heavier dose of scorn and viciousness, Strindberg's classic Swedish tale of forbidden romance has been transposed to a number of historical settings over the years.

Read more: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/48hrs/article/1422966/playwright-yael-farber-introduces-colonial-politics-strindbergs-miss
UK
Date-night theatre: the best (and worst) plays for Valentine's Day
Loved-up couples should probably give Strindberg and Beckett a miss. And Romeo and Juliet doesn't guarantee a romantic night out. What shows are fit for 14 February?

By Lyn Gardner   
The Guardian, theatreblog Wednesday 12 February 2014

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow and British theatre is getting in on the act of celebrating the saint who, when he isn't busy watching over lovers, gives a helping hand to plague victims and beekeepers. I guess that's the saintly equivalent of a portfolio career.
Digital Theatre are trying to entice you and your beloved to get involved in an online watchalong of the David Tennant and Catherine Tate Much Ado About Nothing. As You Like It at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol is being pushed as the perfect romantic date and Dirty Dancing is advertising special Valentine's Day performances. If my beloved took me to see Dirty Dancing, he would soon be my ex-beloved.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2014/feb/12/date-night-valentines-day-theatre-plays


Elena Balzamo tilldelas pris för kulturens främjande
Litteraturhistorikern och översättaren Elena Balzamo tilldelas Svenska Akademiens pris för introduktion av svensk kultur utomlands

Atlantis, Pressmeddelande 2014-02-12

Svenska Akademien har beslutat tilldela Elena Balzamo och þórarinn Eldjárn var sitt pris för introduktion av svensk kultur utomlands.
Ur motiveringen:
"Elena Balzamo är översättare och litteraturvetare, född 1965 i Moskva och bosatt i Chartres i Frankrike. Hon är fil. dr i nordiska språk och disputerade på en avhandling om den svenska konstsagan 1987. Vid sidan om sin skrivande verksamhet undervisar hon i språkvetenskap och skandinavisk forntida och medeltida historia. 2001 blev hon hedersdoktor vid Umeå universitet.
Elena Balzamos senaste båda verk Skrifdon och papper, brefkort, frimärken – fyra essäer om Strindberg och August Strindberg, ansikten och öde kom ut 2012. Hon översätter från flera språk men främst från svenska till franska. Bland författare hon översatt märks Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Hjalmar Bergman, Kerstin Ekman, August Strindberg och Hjalmar Söderberg."
Elena är aktuell med boken August Strindberg. Ansikten och öde.

Länk: http://www.atlantisbok.se/layout/news.php?id=297
äv: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/bokfoerlaget-atlantis/pressreleases/elena-balzamo-tilldelas-pris-foer-kulturens-fraemjande-960360

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 – 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

 

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
 


 

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
 


 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)

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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