Play Strindberg

Play Strindberg is a comedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which was premiered at the Theater Basel ( Basel comedy) on February 8, 1969. She has a duration of about one and a half hours. It is a paraphrase of the drama The Dance of Death by August Strindberg, published in 1900.

People

  • Alice, former actress
  • Edgar, a former military writer
  • Kurt, cousin of Alice

Action

The couple Alice and Edgar has been married for 25 years and lives on an island. The old couple bears from his marriage war, which obviously turns in constantly repeating phrases in a circle. Each accuses the other of being to blame for their own dissatisfaction. Alice's cousin Kurt has signed up for the evening to visit. But this will not stay long, to visit his future boss, the doctor who is a company to which the old couple is not actually invited. But an old affair between Alice and Kurt and Kurt's past as a dubious businessman make a visit out differently than planned.

To the music in the piece

Johan Halvorsen's collection march of the boyars from 1896 on one side and Solveig's Song from Grieg's incidental music to Peer Gynt known from 1876 on the other hand, characterize each of the protagonists Edgar and Alice. The latter is the action of a grieving to the unfaithful beloved wife, the first one -pointed military march. Both have their origins in the nationalist dominated Norwegian romance.

Expenditure

  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Play Strindberg. Diogenes Verlag, 2nd edition, October 1998, ISBN 978-3-257-23052-9
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