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The Great Highway
''The Great Highway'' ( sv, Stora landsvägen) is the last play by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The original title is ''Stora landsvägen''. Structured as a journey play in seven stages, it is an allegory of the individual's passage through life. History When Strindberg wrote this play, he was already suffering from the stomach cancer that would kill him three years later, and he intended it as a summation of his thoughts on various questions, a kind of theatrical self-portrait and last testament. A literal translation of the Swedish title would be "The Great Country Road", and Strindberg intended this to reference the street where he had lived as a child, which led directly to the cemetery. The world premiere of the play took place on February 19, 1910, at the Intimate Theater of Stockholm with August Falck in the lead role of the Hunter. It was not the kind of play the public associated with Strindberg and it closed after a comparatively short run (16 performances acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. 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 innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his '' The Red Room'' (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strindbergs Intima Teater
Strindberg's Intimate Theater ( sv, Strindbergs Intima Teater or ''Intima teatern''), is a theatre stage in Stockholm, Sweden. History It was founded and managed by the famous Swedish playwright August Strindberg and the young actor August Falck (1882–1938) between 1907 and 1910. The playhouse was a small (6 x 6 meters) but engaging space based on the designs of the French and German models of the time. The small auditorium could hold up to 150 patrons and featured some of the most advanced lighting innovations of the day. The size of the space in no way limited the company but actually encouraged continuous experimentation. The author used the stage for his own plays as well as for guest performances of modern drama from abroad. In all, 25 of Strindberg's plays were performed and a total number of 2500 performances were given during the theatre's short but highly influential existence. Among its most successful stagings were the original productions of ''Easter'', ''The Ghost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memory Play
A memory play is a play in which a lead character narrates the events of the play, which are drawn from the character's memory. The term was coined by playwright Tennessee Williams, describing his work ''The Glass Menagerie''. In his production notes, Williams says, "Being a 'memory play', ''The Glass Menagerie'' can be presented with unusual freedom of convention." In a widening of the definition, it has been argued that Harold Pinter's plays ''Old Times'', '' No Man's Land'' and ''Betrayal'' are memory plays, where "memory becomes a weapon". Brian Friel's ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' is a late 20th-century example of the genre. ''The Glass Menagerie'' In the script, Williams describes the scene: In his first few lines Tom Wingfield declares: The action of the play is loosely based on Williams' own memories. The narrator, Tom Wingfield, moves in and out of the action, directly addressing the audience at times. The other characters Amanda and Laura also revisit their own memories th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Plays
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Plays By August Strindberg
This is a list of August Strindberg's written works. See also *August Strindberg paintings Bibliography Drama Posthumous * ''The growth of a soul'', translated by Claud Field, 1913 * ''På gott och ont'' (''Of Good and Evil''), 1914 * ''Genom öknar till arvland; eller, Moses'' (''Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land; or, Moses'') (''Through Deserts to Ancestral Lands ''), twenty-one tableaux, 1918 * ''Hellas; eller, Sokrates'' (''Hellas; or, Socrates'') (''Hellas ''), nineteen tableaux, 1918 * ''Lammet och vilddjuret; eller, Kristus'' (''The Lamb and the Wild Beast; or, Christ'') (''The Lamb and the Beast ''), fifteen tableaux, 1918 * ''Toten-Insel'' (''Isle of the Dead''), one scene, 1918 * ''Han och hon: En själs utvecklingshistoria'' (''He and She: A soul's development history''), 1919 * ''Efterspelet'' (''Epilogue''), 1920 * ''Strindbergs brev till Harriet Bosse'': Natur & Kultur, 1932 * ''August Strindbergs och Ola Hanssons brevvåxling'', 1938 * ''Åttitalsnovelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autobiographical Plays
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