Strindberg and Modernist Theatre Post-Inferno Drama on the Stage [Paperback]

This book offers an analysis of Strindberg's major expressionist works in performance.This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, he called his Inferno. Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, this study explores the crucial impact that this writer's allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had on the changing nature of the theatrical experience. Each chapter of the book ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, he called his Inferno. Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, this study explores the crucial impact that this writer's allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had on the changing nature of the theatrical experience. Each chapter of the book ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, which he called his Inferno. Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, the study explores the crucial impact of this dramatist's method of playwriting. Each chapter ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Before Inferno: Strindberg and nineteenth-century theatre; 2. Toward a new theatre: To Damascus; 3. A theatre of dreams: A Dream Play; 4. Chamber theatre: The Ghost Sonata; Notes; Select bibliography; Index. Superb illustrations andlÃç