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August Strindberg

May 2024

  • Rachelle Diedericks (left) as Christine and Nadia Parkes as Julie in The House Party at Minerva theatre, Chichester.

    The House Party review – teenage debauchery brings Strindberg to Saltburn

    Writhing and retching while sandwiched between spectators, revellers navigate class, sex and power at Miss Julie’s 18th birthday celebration

March 2024

  • Minne Koole as Jan and Eefje Paddenburg as Julie.

    Julie review – Rebecca Frecknall’s sensational take on Strindberg

    The British director of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire makes a gripping debut with the acclaimed Dutch company

June 2022

  • Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae in The Dance of Death.

    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

May 2022

  • Hilton McRae (Captain) and Lindsay Duncan (Alice) in The Dance of Death.

    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

September 2021

  • Tim Pritchett and Heledd Gwynn in Missing Julie.

    Missing Julie review – passion fights politics in laden Strindberg update

  • Taut and claustrophobic … Heleddd Gwynn and Tim Pritchett in Missing Julie at Theatr Clwyd.

    Missing Julie review – gripping take on Strindberg simmers with tension

April 2021

  • Not seduced … Sophie Robinson in Miss Julie.

    Lockdown culture
    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

February 2021

  • Lena Olin and Erland Josephson with the Hedda Gabler sofa in After the Rehearsal.

    The stage on screen
    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

April 2019

  • Dorothea Myer-Bennett and James Sheldon in Creditors at Theatre By the Lake, Keswick.

    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

January 2019

  • Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in Macbeth

    Ian McKellen at 80: a lifetime on stage – in pictures

    As Ian McKellen launches a tour of 80 venues to mark his 80th birthday in May, we look back over his long and brilliant stage career

June 2018

  • Julie at the National Theatre

    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

May 2018

  • Polly Stenham backstage at London's National Theatre.

    Polly Stenham on rewriting Strindberg: 'I wanted to go for the jugular'

  • Adura Onashile and Edward Franklin in Creditors.

    Creditors review – Strindberg's scintillating tale of passion and possession

November 2017

  • Charlotte Hamblin, centre, as Miss Julie, with Izabella Urbanowicz as Kristin and James Sheldon as Jean

    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

September 2017

  • Jasper Britton as August Strindberg

    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

July 2017

  • Charlotte Hamblin and James Sheldon
by August Strindberg
adapted by Howard Brenton
directed by Tom Littler

    Miss Julie review – as sensational as ever

    Strindberg’s passion play remains as resonant today in Howard Brenton’s new translation as it was when first performed in the Paris of 1893

November 2016

  • Sara Griffiths and Alice Frankham in The Stronger, part of Strindberg’s Women.

    Strindberg's Women review – a double bill of power games and sexual politics

    Two short plays of sexual politics by the Swedish dramatist show that his female characters can be just as varied and vivid as the men

May 2016

  • Melbourne Theatre Company’s April 2016 production of Miss Julie.

    Miss Julie review – derivative yet riveting up-close look at class and human nature

    Director Kip Williams’s electric staging of Strindberg classic uses technology to pump up a once-radical dissection of ordinary human lives

April 2016

  • Tam Dean Burn as the Captain and Lucianne McEvoy as Alice.

    Dance of Death review – Strindberg's psychological drama in close-up

  • Actors Mark Leonard Winter and Robin McLeavy in discussion with director Kip Williams

    Director Kip Williams on Miss Julie: 'This was a play that made me angry'

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