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Strindberg’s Women

Jermyn Street Theatre, London (****)

© Robert Workman, Robin Kingsland (The Brother) offering consolation and advice to Sara Griffiths Gerda, the estranged wife, in Storm

© Robert Workman, Robin Kingsland (The Brother) offering consolation and advice to Sara Griffiths Gerda, the estranged wife, in Storm

August Strindberg is best known for the violence of his views on sexual politics. Miss Julie and Dance of Death are nothing if not agonised and agonising examinations of the hopeless wish to find equanimity in human relations between men and women. Continue reading

The Inn at Lydda

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London (***)

© Marc Brenner, Samuel Collings (Jesus), Stephen Boxer (Tiberius Caesar)

Well here’s a rum to-do. An imaginary meeting between the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth is American academic and playwright, John Wolfson’s opportunity for a ripe crusade on power and its corruptions. Continue reading