Methuen Drama, 1982

World Classics

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Roles: Total (41), Female (12), Male (29), Unassigned (0)

...A Dream Play, like many of Strindberg’s plays, was based on his own psychological and marital experiences. The author watched Norwegian actress Harriet Bosse in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1900; shortly thereafter, he...

Methuen Drama, 1991

World Classics

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Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Creditors describes the marriage of Tekla, a successful author, and her second husband Adolf. Adolf has become depressed about the state of his marriage and seeks the advice of his new friend Gustav, who recommends a novel scheme to solve...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...In the oppressive heat of Midsummer's Eve, Julie, daughter of the lord, is drawn into a dangerous tryst with her father's butler. As the night wears on, the couple, from opposite ends of the social spectrum, dance, flirt and fight towards...

Methuen Drama, 1991

World Classics

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (23), Female (4), Male (19), Unassigned (0)

...Olof Persson was a Swedish clergyman whose contribution to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden forms the subject of this, August Strindberg's first major play. In Master Olof - which Strindberg would revise many times over the years - we...

Faber and Faber, 2003

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...‘There is a sordid and disgusting atmosphere, which makes the immorality of the play glaring and crude. There is the very questionable theme in these days of the relationship between masters and servants, which this play tends...

Methuen Drama, 2006

Student Editions

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Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Presenting a jagged and gripping conflict of sexual passion and social position, Miss Julie is shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, and was fiercely attacked on publication for its perceived immorality...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A conflict of sexual passion and social position that is jagged and gripping. Miss Julie is shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, and was fiercely attacked on publication for immorality. It is Midsummer...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...A new adaptation of Strindberg's thrilling psychological drama, newly politically-charged in Amy Ng's adaptation. It's Chinese New Year in 1940s Hong Kong. Julie is the daughter of the island's British Governor. With her father...

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...A BBC production of the play by August Strindberg, translated by Michael Meyer. Described by a critic as ‘a love-hate relationship played on a tightrope of tension’, this is Strindberg's drama about sex and class warfare. Janet McTeer plays...

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...A BBC production of the play by August Strindberg, translated by Michael Meyer. Described by a critic as ‘a love-hate relationship played on a tightrope of tension’, this is Strindberg's drama about sex and class warfare. Janet McTeer plays...

Methuen Drama, 1982

World Classics

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Hailed by Strindberg himself as his ‘best play’, The Dance of Death seems paradoxically so – it is a dark and pessimistic depiction of a marriage in strife. The relationship between the main characters, Alice and Edgar, parallels...

Methuen Drama, 1983

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Strindberg’s intense and unyielding play displays his suspicion of women at its most implacable, in a portrait of fierce marital discord and sexual conflict. The Captain and his wife Laura are locked in a disagreement...

Methuen Drama, 1983

World Classics

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Roles: Total (12), Female (7), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...The Ghost Sonata is a phantasmagoric dream play steeped in cynicism and disgust, peeling open a world drained of life and rotted by moral corruption and despair. In the square outside a fashionable house, an exhausted...

Methuen Drama, 1982

World Classics

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Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...The Stronger is a one act play with only three characters, set in a women’s café in Stockholm in the 1880s. Of the characters, Madame X, Mademoiselle Y, and the waitress, only the first speaks. However, through a series of stage directions...

Faber and Faber, 2003

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

Methuen Drama, 1991

World Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (17), Female (5), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...A stranger stands on a street corner talking to a lady about his sufferings, fearing he has been cursed to live without contentment. She too is discontented, unhappy in her marriage to a local doctor; she allows herself to be taken away...