August Stindberg The Dance Of Death

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World Theatre: The Dance of Death Mon 30th Jan 1961, 20:00 on BBC Home Service Basicby August Strindberg, adapted by Max Faber from his English version Pianist, Clifton Helliwell Production by H.B. Fortuin The deliciously venomous story of a crumbling marriage—laced with black comedy and biting humor. In a round, granite tower of a coastal fort on an island off Sweden, Edgar, Captain of the Garrison Artillery, and his wife Alice, a former actress, have been living for twenty-five years. When Kurt, her cousin, joins them to take up his post as Quarantine Officer the Captain's cruelty and jealousy flare up, countered by his wife's hatred. Characters in order of speaking: Edgar, Captain of the garrison artillery: Donald Wolfit Alice, his wife, an ex-actress: Margaret Leighton Jenny, maid:…..Mairhi Russell Kurt, quarantine officer, Alice's cousin: Sebastian Shaw Judith, daughter of the Captain and Alice: Catherine Dolan Alan, Kurt's son:……..Nicholas Edmett The Lieutenant:……..John Bryning Tonight’s play is not among Strindberg's best - known dramas, but to some critics it is his masterpiece. It is certainly the fullest analysis of the problem that haunted him for most of his life: the nature of the bond that unites a man and woman in marriage: a contract demanded by society that matures into either indifference or a vicious entanglement of love and hate.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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