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Dance of Death

A riveting and explosive drama of grotesque humor and hatred, about a bitter artillery captain and his wife, a former actress, isolated on an island fortress during a storm.  The surprise return from America of her cousin sets things really going, including a threat of divorce, a near seduction, and a dance-induced stroke.  Not a light comedy!  Vintage Strindberg!

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Comrades (Kamraterna) 1886-87

Comrades (Kamraterna) is a witty satire on the emancipation of women and reproof of the modern ideal of the equality of men and women. Still performed, still biting, still timely, this may be Strindberg's play with the most complex birth process. The saga of the modern woman Bertha was begun in 1886 as the 5-act play Marauders (Marodörer), was rewritten as the 4-act Comrades (Kamraterna) in 1886-87, and concluded in 1887 with the famous "prequel" The Father (Fadren). While it was classed with such plays as Ibsen's Doll's House (1879) and Ghosts (1882), and Anne-Charlotte Leffler's True Women (1883)—all of them known to Strindberg—and highly controversial at the time, it is surprising how many of its issues remain burning to this day.

 

 

Upcoming Tassla Events!

March 22 & March 28, 2010

The August Strindberg Society of Los Angeles,
the Barbro Osher Pro-Suecia Foundation,
The Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation,
and the CLU Theatre Arts Department

Present

A concert reading of a new translation of

Dance of Death
By August Strindberg

Directed by David Patch
New Translation by Anne-Charlotte Harvey
Produced by Kat Kambes

THE PLAYERS INCLUDE:
Anne-Charlotte Harvey, Michael Harvey

Kat Kambes, Peter Larlaham

Sandy Johnson

Monday March 22, at 7 p.m.
San Diego State University, Experimental Theater (DA 102)

And

Sunday, March 28, 2 p.m.
Cal Lutheran University, Overton Hall
Thousand Oaks, CA

Admission is free
Call 323-993-7178 for reservations

 




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