[NEohioPAL]Cesear's Forum at Kennedy's presents two Strindberg One-Act Plays

Fri Jul 12 14:58:24 PDT 2002

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Cesear's Forum is pleased to offer two one-act plays by August Strindberg; 
THE STRONGER and PLAYING WITH FIRE, at Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square 
Center, Cleveland, Ohio.  Repression, boredom and indescreet extravagance 
lead to the delight, grief and knowledge of infidelity.  Combining naturalism 
with psychological subjectivism, these compact plays are filled with 
bittersweet humor and quiet tension.  The former play concerns two actresses, 
one talking, one not and their battle over the heart and mind of the same 
man.  Who is the stronger?  The latter is Strindberg's portrait of sexual 
attractions and the intense power games that accompany them.

Considered Sweden's national playwright, August Strindberg (1849-1912) is 
credited as one of the founding fathers of modern drama.  A prolific, 
experimental writer, he penned more than 60 plays, 7,000 letters and a 
library of novels, histories, short stories and poems in his forty-year 
career.  Writing in a variety of styles ranging from naturalism, symbolism 
and expressionism, his finest work centers on the battle of the sexes.  
Critics point to his misogyny as the flawed cornerstone of his output, but he 
was so ahead of his time that he never really enjoyed the success that his 
talents deserved.  He succumbed to drink and several breakdowns of paranoia 
and psychosis.  Dabbling in alchemy, occultism and searching for some sense 
of salvation with the spiritual and natural world, Strindberg continued to 
record his experiences until his death of stomach cancer.  His influence can 
be seen in the works of German Espressionism and the plays of Eugene O'Neill, 
Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter.

Cesear's Forum, a small non-profit theatre collective, continues with its 
mission of presenting unconventional, new or lesser-known theatre pieces to 
northeast Ohio audiences.  Earlier this season, the company presented Eugene 
Ionesco's absurdist play, THE CHAIRS.  Although Strindberg was recently 
represented on Broadway (THE DANCE OF DEATH), most of his plays are 
infrequently performed in this country.  The Cesear's Forum production cast 
includes:  Sheila E. Maloney, Juliette Regnier, Michael Regnier, Kristie J. 
Lange, Mark Rabant, Brian Bowers and Mary Drake.

THE STRONGER and PLAYING WITH FIRE; July 19 through August 24, Kennedy's Down 
Under, Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Friday & Saturdays at 
8 pm.  All seats $15.00.  Call Tickets.com at (216) 241-6000.      

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<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">Cesear's Forum is pleased to offer two one-act plays by August Strindberg; THE STRONGER and PLAYING WITH FIRE, at Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland, Ohio.  Repression, boredom and indescreet extravagance lead to the delight, grief and knowledge of infidelity.  Combining naturalism with psychological subjectivism, these compact plays are filled with bittersweet humor and quiet tension.  The former play concerns two actresses, one talking, one not and their battle over the heart and mind of the same man.  Who is the stronger?  The latter is Strindberg's portrait of sexual attractions and the intense power games that accompany them.
 
 Considered Sweden's national playwright, August Strindberg (1849-1912) is credited as one of the founding fathers of modern drama.  A prolific, experimental writer, he penned more than 60 plays, 7,000 letters and a library of novels, histories, short stories and poems in his forty-year career.  Writing in a variety of styles ranging from naturalism, symbolism and expressionism, his finest work centers on the battle of the sexes.  Critics point to his misogyny as the flawed cornerstone of his output, but he was so ahead of his time that he never really enjoyed the success that his talents deserved.  He succumbed to drink and several breakdowns of paranoia and psychosis.  Dabbling in alchemy, occultism and searching for some sense of salvation with the spiritual and natural world, Strindberg continued to record his experiences until his death of stomach cancer.  His influence can be seen in the works of German Espressionism and the plays of Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter.
 
 Cesear's Forum, a small non-profit theatre collective, continues with its mission of presenting unconventional, new or lesser-known theatre pieces to northeast Ohio audiences.  Earlier this season, the company presented Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play, THE CHAIRS.  Although Strindberg was recently represented on Broadway (THE DANCE OF DEATH), most of his plays are infrequently performed in this country.  The Cesear's Forum production cast includes:  Sheila E. Maloney, Juliette Regnier, Michael Regnier, Kristie J. Lange, Mark Rabant, Brian Bowers and Mary Drake.
 
 THE STRONGER and PLAYING WITH FIRE; July 19 through August 24, Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Friday & Saturdays at 8 pm.  All seats $15.00.  Call Tickets.com at (216) 241-6000.      </HTML>

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