The Chamber Plays: 'Thunder in the Air', 'After the Fire', 'The Ghost Sonata', 'The Pelican', 'The Black Glove'

The Chamber Plays: 'Thunder in the Air', 'After the Fire', 'The Ghost Sonata', 'The Pelican', 'The Black Glove'

The Chamber Plays: 'Thunder in the Air', 'After the Fire', 'The Ghost Sonata', 'The Pelican', 'The Black Glove'

The Chamber Plays: 'Thunder in the Air', 'After the Fire', 'The Ghost Sonata', 'The Pelican', 'The Black Glove'

The Chamber Plays: 'Thunder in the Air', 'After the Fire', 'The Ghost Sonata', 'The Pelican', 'The Black Glove'

Overview

Strindberg called these five highly original late works (from 1907) chamber plays to remind us of Beethoven's last quartets. Like the quartets, they are intensely disciplined yet elliptical creations, Written for the Intimate Theatre (founded with August Flack), they strive to reach elusive states of being. Strindberg breaks down for us the barriers between sensory perception and fantasy, between real people and their self-projections, between the living and the dead.

Authors

August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish author and playwright whose work engaged the concepts of naturalism and expressionism. He was born in Stockholm on January 22, 1849, to an unsuccessful shipping agent and a maidservant. He attended the University of Uppsala, but he would ...
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