Born to be Wilder
A critique of religious fanaticism is the object of a series of plays by Thornton Wilder and a dramatization by Stephen Berkoff of Franz Kafka's landmark short story In the Penal Colony, being performed next week at the Burton Taylor theatre...
Drama: Where's me Julie?
Strindberg is often overlooked as the poor relative of Ibsen, and yet Sean O'Casey gets it right when he says: 'While Ibsen sits in his Doll's House, Strindberg is battling with his heaven and hell.' In his half a dozen plays which centre largely on the viciousness of women, we encounter such wasted emotional landscapes as are not to be encountered again before the plays of Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and Eugene O'Neil. Thankfully, Ed McGown's production delivers in losing none of the naturalistic rawness that Strindberg intended....