Creditors
From: Thursday, 25th September 2008
To: Saturday, 15 November 2008
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Synopsis
In a seaside hotel Adolph, an ailing young artist, anxiously awaits the return of his older wife Tekla, a free-spirited novelist, who is away on a trip. He takes guidance and solace from his new friend Gustav. But comfort turns to conflict as fears take hold, wounds are exposed and emotional debts settled.
Our Review:
1 October 2008
Although it dates from the same year as Miss Julie in 1888, Strindberg’s Creditors is less well known and far less performed. And yet it feels so much more mysteriously modern a play, and in David Greig’s new ninety-minute version – which sounds like a jauntier version of Michael Meyer’s standard translation – the shock value is renewed and new minted.
The perfect chamber play, Creditors fulfilled Strindberg’s requirement for his own Intimate Theatre with the blistering intensity of its study in consuming passion. Gustav (Owen Teale), a philosopher scientist, tells the artist Adolph (Tom Burke) that he must abandon his wife, the novelist Tekla (Anna Chancellor). We realise that Gustav was formerly married to Tekla himself and cannot move on without laying waste around him. His tactics of psychological terrorism are deeply disturbing.
Schematically conceived in three riveting scenes, Alan Rickman’s white hot produc...
Creative
August Strindberg (Author)
Donmar Warehouse (Producer)
David Grieg (Adaptation)
Alan Rickman (Director)
Ben Stonnes (Design)
Fotini Dimou (Costume)
Howard Harrison (Lighting)
Adam Cork (Sound)
Adam Cork (Music)
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