In August Stringberg's drama, a credulous artist has his mind poisoned against his wife by her former husband, during an afternoon in a lounge at a seaside resort. Part of the 2018 Dream Up Festival.
Read more Show lessSee it if If you need to see Stindberg.
Don't see it if Bad acting, direction as well as slow.
See it if you want to see a mystery slowly unraveled about a man with the love and faith in his wife tested.
Don't see it if you don't want to see marriage and women put into an unflattering light.
See it if you have the patience to sit through a translation that was prepared by a literal translator and not a dramatist.
Don't see it if you are expecting anything more than a poorly staged reading of a one-note translation of The Creditors. Read more
See it if You care about less performed, more important plays by the less performed, most important playwright of the modern theatre.
Don't see it if Historically important plays and playwrights don't matter enough to you to see one of their key works at a summer festival. Read more
See it if You savour Strindberg's cat and mouse games of romantic love.
Don't see it if You haven't got patience with "all the nuances, halftones, and transitions" Read more
See it if you know Strindberg's work and want a different take on the psychological aspects.
Don't see it if you're expecting old-fashioned scenery chewing. Read more
See it if Swedish plays from the 1880s about sex might have something to say about matters today.
Don't see it if plays from the 1880s about sex might make you uncomfortable. Read more
See it if you want to see the play Strindberg thought this was his best. It may still be, taking a hard look at open marriage.
Don't see it if you're not in for strong medicine. Read more
"I was so looking forward to the psychological chess game and deep intrigue of this play and wanted to revel in the one-upmanship, the power shifts and the twists and turns of manipulation. I wanted to delve into open marriage and gender disparity, be turned on by, and feel challenged by the torn curtain reveal of male anxieties. I was hoping for a wild ride through a deadly carnival of human emotion...It didn’t happen."
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