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Malin Tybåhl
The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre is the resident company at the Gene Frankel Theatre. 2012–13 Season The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre became the resident company at the Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City's East Village when it transferred its first production, Strindberg's ''Playing with Fire'' (co-produced by the Negro Ensemble Company), there in June 2012 after an initial run at the New School's theatre in the West Village.''A Swedish Love Triangle, With Some Slight Revisions'' by Eric Grode, , May 28, 2012, ''Playing with Fire'' received three [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Frankel
Eugene V. Frankel (December 23, 1919 – April 20, 2005) was an American actor, theater director, and acting teacher especially notable in the founding of the off-Broadway scene. Frankel served in the Army during World War II in entertainment and as a member of an aerial crew. Life and career Frankel's direction of the off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's ''The Blacks (play), The Blacks'' was regarded as a crucial production in promoting African-American theater during the civil-rights movement which opened in 1961 and ran at St. Mark's Theatre for more than 1,400 performances, the longest-running Off-Broadway non-musical of the decade. The cast included James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone; sets were by Kim E. Swados, music by Charles Gross, and costumes and masks by Patricia Zipprodt. He began his own career as an actor and was one of the earliest members of the Actors Studio. He moved behi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Julie
''Miss Julie'' () is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of a count in Sweden. Miss Julie is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean, who is well-traveled and well-read. The action takes place in the kitchen of Miss Julie's father's manor, where Jean's fiancée, a servant named Christine, cooks and sometimes sleeps while Jean and Miss Julie talk. Themes One theme of the play is Darwinism, a theory that was a significant influence on the author during his naturalistic period. This theme is stated explicitly in the preface, where Strindberg describes his two lead characters, Miss Julie and Jean, as vying against each other in an evolutionary "life and death" battle for a survival of the fittest. The character of Miss Julie represents the last of a dying aristocratic breed and serves to characterize women in mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |