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August Strindberg
May 2024
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
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
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
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
Missing Julie review – passion fights politics in laden Strindberg update
Missing Julie review – gripping take on Strindberg simmers with tension
April 2021
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
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
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 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 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 on rewriting Strindberg: 'I wanted to go for the jugular'
Creditors review – Strindberg's scintillating tale of passion and possession
November 2017
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
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
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
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
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
Dance of Death review – Strindberg's psychological drama in close-up
Director Kip Williams on Miss Julie: 'This was a play that made me angry'
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