A Dream Play
Indra’s daughter descends to Earth and encounters human suffering, including poverty, cruelty, and the strains of family life. After a dreamlike sequence of shifting scenes, she returns to Heaven.
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August Strindberg
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A Dream Play
Indra’s daughter descends to Earth and encounters human suffering, including poverty, cruelty, and the strains of family life. After a dreamlike sequence of shifting scenes, she returns to Heaven.
After Miss Julie
Marber relocates Strindberg’s Miss Julie to an English country house in July 1945, on the night of Labour’s election victory. The action centers on Miss Julie and two servants, John and Christine, in the house’s kitchen.
Babai
A Bengali adaptation of The Father that recasts the Captain as a college teacher researching astrophysics, while retaining the conflict between him and his wife over their daughter.
Creditors
At a seaside hotel, the teacher Gustav manipulates his former wife Tekla's new husband, the artist Adolf, into suspicion and jealousy; when Gustav resumes his intimacy with Tekla, the scheme ends in Adolf's death.
Creditors
At a seaside hotel, a stranger befriends a young artist and begins to undermine his confidence in his marriage. Jen Silverman’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s play follows the resulting struggle over love, influence and revenge.
Easter
With their father imprisoned for embezzlement and daughter Eleanora confined to an asylum, the Heyst family fears financial and emotional ruin. As Easter approaches, their ordeal opens the possibility of forgiveness and mercy.
Ein Traumspiel
A German-language opera based on August Strindberg’s play A Dream Play.
Lucky-Peter's Journey
On Christmas Eve, fifteen-year-old Peter escapes a church tower and meets Lisa, but pursues wealth and power to win her rather than returning her love. He becomes king, leads a reform movement and then rejects it, before despairing in a stormy seascape and calling for Death. Guided by the Good Fairy and gnome Loki, he recognizes that love is the only thing he values; Lisa returns, they reconcile, and his father’s spell is broken.
Master Olof
The historical drama follows Protestant reformer Olaus Petri's struggle against the Roman Catholic Church in sixteenth-century Sweden.
Miss Julie
On Midsummer’s Eve at a Swedish estate, aristocrat Julie flirts with her father’s valet Jean, who is engaged to the cook Christine. Julie and Jean have sex and plan to flee and open a hotel, but their class positions and dependence on Julie’s father undermine the plan. After the Count returns, Julie asks Jean for a way out; he gives her a razor, and she leaves, presumably to die by suicide.
Miss Julie
On Midsummer Eve, the Count’s daughter Julie becomes entangled with Jean, her father’s servant, while Kristin and gamekeeper Ulrik witness the consequences. At dawn Jean urges Julie to flee with him and steal money for his hotel plan; after the dog is shot and the Count returns, Julie walks out into the park carrying Jean’s razor.
Miss Julie: Freedom Summer
In Mississippi in 1964, a wealthy white woman and her father’s Black chauffeur enter a dangerous sexual encounter. Their struggle over power unfolds against the violence and contested freedoms of the civil-rights era.
Pariah
In a farmhouse during a storm, Mr. X and Mr. Y debate their past crimes while a box of gold sits between them. Their contest over guilt and justice escalates into a threat of violence.
Play Strindberg
Edgar and Alice’s marriage has become an exhausting contest of cruelty. The arrival of Alice’s cousin Kurt intensifies their struggle, rendered as a comic psychological fight divided into twelve rounds.
Smoke
At a BDSM party in a New York apartment, college student Julie and aspiring artist John form a connection that develops into a disturbing struggle over power, consent, and sexual assault. Davies gives Julie a voice and survival that differ from Strindberg's Julie.
The Dance of Death I
On an isolated island, artillery captain Edgar and his wife Alice, a former actress, struggle through a vicious marriage. When Alice’s cousin Kurt visits, the pair form an alliance against Edgar, while their conflict exposes the family’s bitter history and custody grievances.
The Dance of Death II
After Edgar’s near-fatal collapse, Alice describes the lasting effects of his illness. Edgar’s ruthless financial dealings cause Kurt to lose money, while their children Judith and Allan seek happiness together amid the cycle of hostility between the older generation.
The Father
Captain Adolf and his wife Laura clash over the future and education of their daughter Bertha. Laura persuades others that Adolf is mentally ill, leading to his confinement; he suffers a stroke and dies as Laura reclaims Bertha.
The Ghost Sonata
A young student idealizes the residents of a fashionable Stockholm apartment building. With the mysterious Jacob Hummel's help, he enters and discovers betrayal, sickness, and a world in which human beings must suffer to reach salvation.
The Great Highway
Structured as a seven-stage journey, the memory play follows the Hunter on a mountain walk through surreal encounters with symbolically named figures. As he descends, he meets people from his past, including the daughter he deserted, and the journey becomes an allegory of life's passage.
The Outlaw
In medieval Iceland, Gunlöd loves Gunnar, a Christian who returns from the Crusades and asks her to leave for Sweden. Her pagan father Thorfinn returns during a storm, learns that she is Christian, and is then told he has been banished for theft and murder. He fights his accusers, dies of his wounds, and in his final moments accepts Christianity and blesses Gunlöd and Gunnar’s union.
The Stronger
Two actresses—one married and one unmarried—meet in a café. The married woman speaks while the other remains silent, and their reactions and the unseen husband’s presence reveal a psychological contest whose outcome remains uncertain.
The Stronger
At a bar on Christmas Eve, Estelle tells her silent friend Lisa that she knows Lisa loves her husband. Leaving, Estelle concludes that she is the stronger woman, though the composer’s account leaves the question open.
To Damascus
A three-part cycle traces the Stranger’s spiritual journey through a series of encounters. In Part I, he passes through seven stations on the way to an asylum, then retraces them in reverse to his starting point on a street corner.