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LaBute's Adaptation of 'Miss Julie' a Major Disappointment
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 15 days ago
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In the theatre world, this same rule holds true for adaptations. Unfortunately, Neil LaBute's current adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie is a lackluster affair, and miscasting in the Geffen Playhouse production hurts it further. In LaBute's
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Legit Review: ‘Miss Julie'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 23 days ago
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Good looks, especially in men, mean that you're a privileged, caddish user. How appropriate then that LaBute's adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, being given its world premiere at the Geffen, should find helmer Jo Bonney casting an actor
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Theatre review: Fraulein Julie, Barbican, London
Cape Town :: South Africa | 24 days ago
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In the past year, we have been treated to a slew of high-profile French, South African and home-grown takes on Strindberg's 1888 masterpiece. But it would be a shame if theatregoers felt too Miss Julie -ed out to brave this stunningly left-field
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Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death'
Stockholm :: Sweden | 1 month ago
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Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, noted Swedish playwright August Strindberg's The Dance of Death offers no leavening properties as does Albee's final scene. However, Mike Poulton, the playwright and adaptor of the current production
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Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death' by August Strindberg
Little Rock :: AR :: USA | 1 month ago
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Carol Rosegg The Dance of Death Daniel Davis, left, and Laila Robins in Strindberg's marital slugfest, at the Lucille Lortel Theater. Carol Rosegg Mr. Davis, left, and Derek Smith in Red Bull Theater's three-person adaptation of Strindberg's Dance of
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Review: 'Dance of Death' edgy as always
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 month ago
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An edgy, sometimes harrowing new adaptation by Mike Poulton, presented by the always-adventurous Red Bull Theater, opened Thursday night off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the 19th-century marital battles are as resonant onstage as
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Theater Review: ‘Dream Play,' at the Here Arts Center
Neuilly :: France | 1 month ago
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Yet when the dreams of others are recounted to us, so much gets lost in translation. Or, to put it more plainly: suffering through someone else's jump cuts and surreal metaphors can be tedious as all get-out. Follow @NYTimestheater for theater
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Fitful ‘Dream' doesn't beam
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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When August Strindberg wrote A Dream Play, in 1901, he was mentally shaky, having just emerged from a bout of paranoid psychosis. This may explain why the plotless work is a lot more freeform than a masterpiece like Miss Julie. The vignettes in A
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Theater Review: ‘Easter,' by Strindberg, at the Gene Frankel Theater
Stockholm :: Sweden | 2 months ago
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What then to make of Easter, a rarely seen play revived by the August Strindberg Repertory Theater ?...In it a disgraced family seeks redemption, and the sense of optimism is so strong that you may find yourself expecting a last-minute suicide...And
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Theatre review: Mies Julie, Riverside Theatre, London
Cape Town :: South Africa | 2 months ago
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Strindberg's essential master/slave dynamic is reinstated with a breathtaking vengeance now in Mies Julie , an adaptation that transplants the proceedings to post-apartheid South Africa and to the hot, steamy kitchen of a farm in the semi-desert
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