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The Dance of Death
As their twenty-fifth anniversary approaches, Alice and Edgar, ever at each other's throats, find their mutual hatred at an all-time high. Their latest maid has just quit; their children have abandoned them; and they can't keep company with any of the locals on their remote island because they despise them. After twenty-five years, they can't abide one another either. Thei...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
April 1st 2004
by Theatre Communications Group
(first published 1900)
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You must never forget how to laugh. ... Life is boring enough without it. 16
But while the mechanism functions, you have to kick and fight with hands ad feet as long as there is life in you! 23
And that we should have to grow old! It is no fun, but it is interesting. 25
If you will stop asking who is to blame, it will help to ease your mind. Try to look upon it as a fact, a trial, which must be borne. 30
Alice - there are times when it may be a duty no...more
But while the mechanism functions, you have to kick and fight with hands ad feet as long as there is life in you! 23
And that we should have to grow old! It is no fun, but it is interesting. 25
If you will stop asking who is to blame, it will help to ease your mind. Try to look upon it as a fact, a trial, which must be borne. 30
Alice - there are times when it may be a duty no...more
I was first made aware of Strindberg via numerous literate reviews of the films of Ingmar Bergman. This is not surprising, as the two share some common themes in their work. The most obvious being gloominess. But that's just Sweden in general, right? "Joy is but the shadow pain casts."
a fantastic psychological portrait of the Captain and his destructive personality
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Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen he is arguably the most influential and most important of all Scandinavian authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His work falls into two major literary movements, Naturalism and Expressionism. He is one of the greatest authors...more
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