August Strindberg
The Dance of Death review – gender-swapping adaptation neuters Strindberg
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s version of this 1900 play loses the high stakes of the influential original
Clare Brennan
05, Jun, 2022 @10:30 AM
Dance of Death review – lethally dull Strindberg staging
A strong creative team featuring Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae cannot bring this dreary revival to life
Arifa Akbar
31, May, 2022 @10:00 PM
Missing Julie review – passion fights politics in laden Strindberg update
The love triangle is gone, the wounds of war still raw in Kaite O’Reilly’s alternately intense and laboured adaptation set in Wales in 1921
Clare Brennan
26, Sep, 2021 @10:00 AM
Missing Julie review – gripping take on Strindberg simmers with tension
Kaite O’Reilly relocates August Strindberg’s classic to a Welsh stately home in postwar, post-pandemic 1921
Gareth Llŷr Evans
22, Sep, 2021 @12:30 PM
Miss Julie review – Strindberg spiked with the politics of empire
Playwright Amy Ng adds issues of imperial exploitation and race by moving drama of wealthy woman and servant to Hong Kong in 1948
Mark Fisher
11, Apr, 2021 @11:01 PM
After the Rehearsal: Bergman's brilliant spotlight on making and watching theatre
Ingmar Bergman’s movie unpacks, like no other, the intimate emotional processes of staging and seeing a play
Chris Wiegand
23, Feb, 2021 @6:00 AM
Creditors review – Strindberg lays bare the self-pitying male psyche
Howard Brenton’s no-nonsense translation of Strindberg’s astute drama charts the marriage of a failed artist and his more successful wife
Mark Fisher
01, Apr, 2019 @8:00 AM
Julie review – Polly Stenham's modern take on Strindberg misses the mark
The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby impresses but this updated version of the class-conscious tragedy is overblown
Michael Billington
08, Jun, 2018 @11:17 AM
Polly Stenham on rewriting Strindberg: 'I wanted to go for the jugular'
As her explosive update of the sex-and-class classic Miss Julie hits the stage, playwright Polly Stenham explains why liberal hypocrisy is her new target
Arifa Akbar
31, May, 2018 @5:00 AM
Creditors review – Strindberg's scintillating tale of passion and possession
Stewart Laing directs August Strindberg’s drama about a man wheedling his way into his ex-wife’s marriage
Mark Fisher
02, May, 2018 @7:00 PM
Miss Julie review – passion and pain of Strindberg's midsummer lovers
Howard Brenton’s new adaptation of the Swedish master’s tragedy is given a classy staging that strikes the right note of intimate realism
Michael Billington
16, Nov, 2017 @11:52 AM
The Blinding Light review – Howard Brenton imagines Strindberg's inferno
The Swedish dramatist’s life is shown to echo his plays in a new production about his obsession with alchemy and his relationships with three women
Michael Billington
13, Sep, 2017 @12:51 PM
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