Autore: August Strindberg
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Apr 14, 2014 Plays by August Strindberg, First Series Contents: The dream play - The link - The dance of death part I and II. Language: English: LoC Class: PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures: Subject: Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 - Translations into English Subject: Swedish drama - Translations into English. Strindberg on drama and theatre Sweden’s August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognized as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. A restless innovator of various drama forms, he has proved extremely seminal to the development of modern drama. Strindberg frequently commented on drama and theatre in general,. A Dream Play by August Strindberg In Strindberg’s A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image. As Strindberg himself wrote in his Preface, he wanted “to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream.
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- A Dream Play By August Strindberg, in a new version by Caryl Churchill With additional material by Katie Mitchell and the Company. Director Katie Mitchell Further production details www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Background pack written by Jonathan Croall, journalist and theatrical biographer, and author of three books in the series ‘The National.
Strindberg S The Ghost Sonata
Autore: Egil Törnqvist
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Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play 'The Ghost Sonata' (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. In this monograph of the play as text and as performance --the first of its kind--Egil Tornqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman's 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.
Autore: August Strindberg
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Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.
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Autore: August Strindberg
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This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' (Martin Esslin).'Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text' (Sunday Times)
Autore: August Strindberg
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Includes: The Chamber Plays (The Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove) and The Ghost Highway. Gregory Motton's translations combine an unprecedented faithfulness to Strindberg's original texts with the natural fluency of one of our most linguistically able contemporary playwrights.
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Autore: August Strindberg
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During his lifetime, Strindberg's obsessional dramatic treatments of insanity, sexual domination and the psychological warfare between man and woman provoked abhorrence and incomprehension. Today his plays are seen as very relevant.
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The Psychology Of The Grotesque In August Strindberg S The Ghost Sonata
Autore: Terry John Converse
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In addition to a comprehensive Jungian analysis of the play, this study provides a psychological definition of the grotesque which may be used as a critical model for other literary works that involve a grotesque vision.
Autore: Francis Grin
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Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: H1, University of Melbourne, course: Modern Drama, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata does not suggest a realistic portrait of life, rather, like a dream, this play offers a subjective experience of the world. It is a highly modern text as it blurs the realms of real and illusion to expose the world in all its scary ambivalence, questioning the old doctrine and the notion of ‘one great truth’. In this way, The Ghost Sonata requires a dramaturgy which rejects realist styles of theatre and adopts an expressionist form. The Ghost Sonata’s world premiere, loosely directed by August Falck, was staged at Strindberg’s Intima Teatern in Stockholm (1908). Although the premiere did not exactly stun its audiences, it had planted the seeds for an expressionist dramaturgy which would later fully blossom and resonate in the set design, characterization, and overall rhythm used in subsequent productions. For example, Ingmar Bergman’s 2001 staging of the play in New York (done by Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden and presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music at The Harvey Lichtenstein Theatre) is an example of how The Ghost Sonata was milked for its theatrical potential, conveying how this play’s dramaturgical journal has cleared the stage for something extraordinary.
Strindberg Five Plays
Autore: August Strindberg
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Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays'The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death,' and 'The Ghost Sonata'are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.'
Autore: August Strindberg
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De Zweedse August Strindberg (1849-1912) wordt gezien als een van de meest belangrijke toneelschrijvers van rond de eeuwwisseling. Zijn choquerende theaterstukken had veel weerklank bij het publiek in die tijd, en inspireert tot op de dag van vandaag toneelschrijvers en publiek. Strindberg was een onophoudelijke innovator van verschillende theatervormen, een bron van inspiratie voor onder meer Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett en Ingmar Bergman en heeft een vruchtbare bodem gelegd voor het moderne toneel. Zijn voorwoord voor Miss Julie en zijn inleiding bij A Dream Play zijn alom bekend en vaak herdrukt. Wat minder bekend is, is dat Strindberg veel toneelstukken recenseerde en kritieken schreef over het theater in z'n algemeen, en zijn toneelstukken in het bijzonder. Dit boek bevat de meest belangrijke van zijn kritieken, chronologisch weergegeven en geannoteerd, waarvan vele voor het eerst in het Engels.
Spectral Characters
Autore: Sarah Balkin
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Theater’s materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are fictional, made and changed by costumes, settings, props, and spoken dialogue. Examining work by Ibsen, Wilde, Strindberg, Genet, Kopit, and Beckett, the book takes up the apparent deadness of characters whose selves are made of other people, whose thoughts become exteriorized communication technologies, and whose bodies merge with walls and furniture. The ghostly, vampiric, and telepathic qualities of these characters, Sarah Balkin argues, mark a new relationship between the material and the imaginary in modern theater. By considering characters whose bodies respond to language, whose attempts to realize their individuality collapse into inanimacy, and who sometimes don’t appear at all, the book posits a new genealogy of modernist drama that emphasizes its continuities with nineteenth-century melodrama and realism.
Autore: August Strindberg
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Drama. Translated from the Swedish by Paul Walsh. THE CHAMBER PLAYS OF AUGUST STRINDBERG are five short plays written by Strindberg at the end of his career for the Intimate Theater, a small 150 seat theater in Stockholm: 'Storm,' 'Burned House,' 'The Ghost Sonata,' 'The Pelican,' and 'The Black Glove.' The plays experiment with style in bold and exciting ways and show Strindberg to be one of the fathers of avant garde theater. THE CHAMBER PLAYS OF AUGUST STRINDBERG is a new translation by Paul Walsh, Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama.
Strindberg And The Five Senses
Autore: Hans-Goran Ekman
Editore: A&C Black
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In this book, Dr Ekman considers Strindberg's four 'Chamber plays' of 1907: 'Thunder in the Air,' 'The Burned Site,' The Ghost Sonata' and 'The Pelican.'>
Autore: Zander Brietzke
Editore: McFarland
ISBN: 1476672237
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Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose reckless pursuits of irrational objectives blind them to better options. Ibsen's protagonists in A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder try to bend the world to conform to their personal visions--with disastrous results. Chekhov's characters refuse to do anything, instead dramatizing their lives as if they were actors in a play (which they are). Rehearsing the intractable squabbles between men and women in The Dance of Death and The Ghost Sonata, Strindberg suggests that only in life beyond death can humanity transcend the brutality of existence. Together, the lives of these characters offer a study of the individual's struggle with modernity.
An International Annotated Bibliography Of Strindberg Studies 1870 2005 The Plays
Autore: Michael Robinson
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This copiously annotated bibliography documents and examines the whole range of commentary on Strindberg's works and activity in many fields besides the plays for which he is internationally best known. These include his prose fiction and poetry, his work as an historian and natural historian, and his relationship to the other arts, most notably his painting. It is concerned with both lasting works of literary and dramatic criticism, as well as reviews of his books and plays in the theatre, and some more ephemeral material, all of this in several languages. Organised generically and by subject and individual work, the bibliography enables the reader to trace the changing impact of Strindberg and his works in various countries and during different periods. It is thus very much a study in reception as well as a bibliographical record of published material. It traces the developing image of Strindberg and his writing both during his lifetime and in subsequent years, and with frequent cross reference offers a comprehensive overview of a literary and existential project that has rarely been matched for its multifaceted diversity. The bibliography is published in three parts. Volume 1, General Studies (978-0-947623-81-4) and Volume 3, Prose, Poetry, Miscellaneous (978-0-947623-83-8) are also now available. Michael Robinson is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Autore: August Strindberg
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The Father; Miss Julie; The Stronger; Easter; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata.
Strindberg And Modernist Theatre
Autore: Frederick J. Marker
Editore: Cambridge University Press
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This book offers an analysis of Strindberg's major expressionist works in performance.
Autore: Eszter Szalczer
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Dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, and painter, August Strindberg’s diverse dramatic output embodied the modernist sensibility. He was above all one of the most radical innovators of Western theatre. This book provides an insightful assessment of Strindberg’s vital contribution to the dramatic arts, while placing his creative process and experimental approach within a wider cultural context. Eszter Szalczer explores Strindberg’s re-definition of drama as a fluid, constantly evolving form that profoundly influenced playwriting and theatrical production from the German Expressionists to the Theatre of the Absurd. Key productions of Strindberg’s plays are analysed, examining his theatre as a living voice that continues to challenge audiences, critics, and even the most innovative directors. August Strindberg provides an essential and accessible guide to the playwright’s work and illustrates the influence of his drama on our understanding of contemporary theatre.
Aesthetic Distance
Autore: Kimberley Mercedes Jones
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A Dream Play | |
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Harriet Bosse as Indra's Daughter in the 1907 première of A Dream Play | |
Written by | August Strindberg |
Date premiered | 17 April 1907 |
Original language | Swedish |
Genre | Expressionism |
A Dream Play (Swedish: Ett drömspel) was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was first performed in Stockholm on 17 April 1907. It remains one of Strindberg's most admired and influential dramas, seen as an important precursor to both dramatic Expressionism and Surrealism.
Plot[edit]
The primary character in the play is Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra. She descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 characters, some of them having a clearly symbolical value (such as four deans representing theology, philosophy, medicine, and law). After experiencing all sorts of human suffering (for example poverty, cruelty, and the routine of family life), the daughter of gods realizes that human beings are to be pitied. Finally, she returns to Heaven and this moment corresponds to the awakening from a dream-like sequence of events.
Interpretations[edit]
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The use of a dream to represent a setting in a theatrical work appealed to the traditionally realist author in that Strindberg expresses realistic concerns such as materialism, class struggle, gender role struggle, and the destruction of traditional marriage in (as stated in the preface) 'the disconnected but apparently logical form of a dream. Everything can happen; everything is possible and likely.'
The play itself represents a change in his style, one that would have widespread influence on the development of modernist drama. Eschewing realism, Strindberg explained that he had modeled his play, not on the pattern of cause and effect that had characterized the well-made play, but on the associative links found in dreams. Locales dissolve and give way to each other; time both moves forward and backward. During the course of the play, a castle grows up in the garden, as if it were a plant. At the play's end, it burns, revealing a wall of suffering and despairing faces, then blossoms at its top in a huge chrysanthemum.
A description of the play's style can be found in Strindberg's prefatory note:
The characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, dissolve and merge. But one consciousness rules them all: the dreamer's; for him there are no secrets, no inconsistencies, no scruples and no laws. He does not judge or acquit, he merely relates; and because a dream is usually painful rather than pleasant, a tone of melancholy and compassion for all living creatures permeates the rambling narrative.[citation needed]
The play itself doesn't center around a single well-defined individual, but rather simply follows someone who seems to be a combination of different professional men, all confused. The feminine foil to these men is Indra's Daughter, a Christ-like figure.[citation needed] She was played in the original production by Harriet Bosse, Strindberg's ex-wife.[1]:59
Psychology of the author[edit]
Strindberg wrote it following a near-psychotic episode. During that time, he came to be extremely disturbed, thinking witches were attempting to murder him.[2][3] He later wrote a memoir about this period of his life. Eventually, though, he recovered, thanks to his mother-in-law.[4]
Previously, Strindberg had seen himself as a martyr, constantly persecuted by women. Autodata crack dongle key copy software. This affected his view of the overall relationship between the sexes, and of course his writing. He finally realized that he was playing a part in his failed relationships after his third marriage to Bosse collapsed.[citation needed] Bosse was behind the main character of A Dream Play.
The play, called by Strindberg 'the child of my greatest pain,' reflects the author's observation that life is an illusion, similar to a dream. This driver has been blocked from loading windows 10. Cleaner on mac screen messed up computer screen.
Notable productions[edit]
The Quarantine Inspector in a 2010 production of A Dream Play
The world premiere of A Dream Play was performed at The Swedish Theatre in April 1907, six years after it was written. Harriet Bosse, Strindberg's third wife (divorced by this time) played Indra's daughter. Victor Castegren directed the production and Carl Grabow was the designer. Critics at the time noted that the demands of the play made it nearly impossible to mount a satisfactory production. Strindberg himself desired to re-stage it in his Intimate Theatre, but ultimately it was not successful.
The play afterward attracted some of the 20th century's most celebrated directors, including Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander, Antonin Artaud, Ingmar Bergman, Roger Blin, Robert Wilson, Mike Dempsey, Robert Lepage and Alejandro Jodorowsky.[5] The German director Knut Ström staged A Dream Play in Düsseldorf in 1918, co-directed with Paul Henkels.[6]
An edited version by Caryl Churchill[7] was staged at the National Theatre in London in 2005. The edited version was brought to other areas too, such as Edge Theatre Ensemble in Seattle[8] and Jobsite Theater in Tampa,[9] and was brought to Sheffield's Drama Studio[10] in February 2012.
A new adaptation by Emma Reay was performed at Oxford Playhouse in 2011.[11]Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1, playwright Alfian Sa'at's loose adaptation, premiered in Singapore in 2000 and was re-staged in 2014.[12]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^Marker, Frederick J.; Marker, Lise-Lone (28 November 2002). Strindberg and Modernist Theatre: Post-Inferno Drama on the Stage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-62377-3.
- ^Treanor, Lorraine (21 June 2007). 'A Dream Play'. DC Theatre Scene.
- ^Brustein, Robert (14 January 2001). 'Dreaming a Dream Play'. New Republic.
- ^Brustein, Robert (15 January 2001), 'On Theater', The New Republic, archived from the original on 26 January 2001
- ^Schroeder, Jonathan E.; Stenport, Anna Westerståhl; Szalczer, Eszter. August Strindberg and visual culture : the emergence of optical modernity in image, text, and theatre. New York, NY. ISBN9781501338007. OCLC1043147459.
- ^von Rosen, Astrid (2019), 'Dream-Playing the Archive: Exploring the 1915-18 Düsseldorf production of A Dream Play', August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text and Theatre, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, pp. 141–146, ISBN9781501338007, retrieved 10 June 2019
- ^Strindberg, August. ed, Churchhill, Carol (2005) A Dream Play, Nick Hern Books, London. ISBN978-1-85459-851-6
- ^Dream, Edge Theatre.
- ^Dream Play, Jobsite Theater, archived from the original on 18 May 2008, retrieved 16 June 2008.
- ^http://sutco.wordpress.com/archives/spring-2012/a-dream-play/ (retrieved 20-7-2012)
- ^McPherson, Martha (13 February 2011). 'NEW WRITING: Interview with A Dream Play adapter Emma Reay'. Oxford Theatre Review. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
- ^'Theatre review: Dreamplay Asian Boys Vol. 1 is a messy affirmation of gay lives'. Singapore Press Holdings. The Straits Times. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
References[edit]
- Brustein, Robert (8 January 2001), Dreaming a Dream Play, The New Republic, archived from the original on 8 March 2005.
- Everdell, William R., 'August Strindberg: Staging a Broken Dream 1907' in The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth Century Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997
- Schroeder, Jonathan, Stenport, Anna W., and Szalczer, Ezster (eds.) August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text and Theatre, London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
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