Hard Work Ahead

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Hard Work Ahead
Topic Started: May 5 2014, 04:10 AM (123 Views)
Trotsky	May 5 2014, 04:10 AM Post #1
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	This afternoon we are seeing August Strindberg's ROAD TO DAMASCUS, PART 1.(3 hours.) I read the intro in Gutenberg e-books and it seems like we are going to have to work at it. It seems to be an autobiographical journey through a couple of Hellish marriages and more than a bit of flirting with insanity. I doubt it will be going to Broadway as a musical anytime soon. laugh123 Quote: Part one of the trilogy has been described as "Strindberg's most complex play" and as "his greatest play," with its mix of myths, symbols and ideas and a profound spiritual analysis in a new dramatic form, and the trilogy his magnum opus, drawn from his near-total nervous breakdown, the marriage that preceded and precipitated it, and the restorative effects of the marriage that followed. The Strindberg Rep will present one part each Spring through 2016. Edited by Trotsky, May 5 2014, 04:34 AM.



Trotsky	May 5 2014, 09:40 AM Post #2
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	PURE TEDIUM. We made it through 1 hour and 10 minutes until intermission and then ran for the train.



FuzzyO	May 5 2014, 10:44 AM Post #3
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Oooh, too bad! I remember walking out on a production of Rosmersholme once; I think that is the only time I've ever left at intermission. No, wait a minute, Chloris Leachman in Show Boat. Should have been great, but it was deadly. Also left at intermission.



Trotsky	May 6 2014, 02:18 AM Post #4
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I too saw a boring production of Rosmersholm (Ibsen) and I think it's a better read than a "see." Same goes for Enemy of the People...I just cannot sit through it. Our other exposures to Strindberg were his GHOST SONATA a number of years back and it was really terrific, and we've seen a couple very good MISS JULIE'S...so you can see our disappointment with this mess. I don't think setting TO DAMASCUS in 1962 Harlem with an interracial couple and her white parents looking like Mammy and Pappy Yokum helped at all. Having a scene where they spend days and day going though the woods, penniless and needing to take ferryboat rides IN HARLEM, the one in MANHATTAN mind you, was so far beyond preposterous words fail. In truth I think these plays dealing with "the meaning of life" are for kids...all that symbolism has gotten to seem not worth my time anymore although I used to wallow in it. Comes with age I guess. <I have to wonder how many people were left in the audience for Act 2> You know what I would love to see: a good movie biography of August Strindberg...his life was fascinating. You know he wrote some essays on the equality of women for which he was tried for BLASPHEMY? Edited by Trotsky, May 6 2014, 02:32 AM.



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