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.. 'Johan ', L'Oeuvre. 1927 from George Freedley and John Reeves. A History of the Theatre. Johan August Strindberg 3rd edition, 1968

Destiny did not pamper Strindberg. His birth was humble; his childhood, wretched; his , neurotic and unstable in the extreme. His career was beset with dis­ appointments and frustrations which would have broken a less resi lient nature. In his youth he could not find the money with which to complete his education, and all his life he struggled with poverty... Physically he was not brave; he was, indeed, neurot­ ically fearful. yet his language was bold, and he constantly provoked aggression. In consequence, he spent a good deal of his time in terror of reprisals. Aggressive as he was, it is clear that his will to power was not as decisive an influence on his life as his will to suffer; he received the manifold indig­ nities which life showered upon him as his just meed, and the measure of his success. - Mauroce Valency. The Ffower and the Castle

3 1849 Johan August Strindberg is born in Although at twenty he was in a state on January 22. of _mental turmoil, Strindberg began to wnte poetry and plays, which won him a In that momentous decade between the meas_ure of recognition but no money. Communist Manifesto and the Origin of He tn~d to support himself by journalism Sp~cies, the Swedish playwright August but fa1led at that. Then he applied for a civil Stnndberg was born. More precisely it was service job and, in spite of not having a in 1849, the year of the Gold Rush of the college degree, was the winning candidate beginning of Dostoevsky's Siberian exile for the position of assistant librarian at the and of such a diverse literary market as ' Royal Library of Stockholm. During eight Thackeray's Pendennis, Proudhon's Con­ y~ars there (1874-1882), he read and wrote fessions d'un revolutionnaire, and Kierke­ w1th great intensity and began to publish gaard's Sickness Unto Death. It was a year stories and essays about and to also ma~ked by the death of Edgar Allan Poe. gather the material he made use of later in that cunous literary phenomenon whose his historical plays. He had come under the influence was out of all proportion to his influence of Darwin's theory of evolution, essential genius. Alas. Poe died a few months Schopenhauer's pessimism, Buckle's relativis­ too late for Strindberg to be the t!c _theory of history, Kierkegaard's existen­ reincarnation that, for a few exhilarating ttahsm, and von Hartmann's Philosophy of months, he fancied himself to be. the Unconscious. - Richard B. Vowles, translator, - Randolph Goodman, From Script to Stage The Natives of Hemso by Strindberg 1875 In the spring, Strindberg meets Captain 1867 On May 25, Strindberg graduates from high Wrangel and his wife . school in Stockholm. In the fall, he begins his studies at University. 1877 Strindberg finishes Anno 48 early in the year. On December 30, he marries Siri von 1869 In the spring, he interrupts his medical Essen (1850-1912) who had meantime been studies; in the fall, he fails dismally as divorced. aspiring actor at the Dramatic Theater. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, he writes, 1882 May 1, finishes Lucky Per's Journey, a play in four days, his first drama, the two-act commissioned by theater director Ludvig A Name Day Gift, rejected by the Dramatic Josephson. Theater; the manuscript is lost. 1883 In the fall, journey to France.

Otto Dix's 'Wounded Soldier 1924' from Bernard Myers, As early as 1884, he wrote: "My best writing . 1968. comes when I am suffering from hallucina­ tions ... "; and in 1887 he remarked in a letter to a young Swedish writer, "It seems to me as though I walk in my sleep-as though reality and imagination are one ..." -Randolph Goodman. From Script to Stage

1887 In January, Strindberg moves to Bavaria. On February 15, he finishes the The Father.

1888 He completes the naturalistic drama Miss in early August. is completed late that summer.

1889 Strindberg finishes the one-act play on January 2, the one-act on January 9.

1892 Divorce from Siri von Essen.

Love has all the symptoms of insanity. Hallucinations, or seeing beauty where none exists. Melancholia of the deepest dye, 4 5 (Continued on page 11) Munch's lithograph 'The Cry' from La Revue Blanche. The University Theatre presents 1694 by AUGUST STRINDBERG

Directed by EDWARD PAYSON CALL :.:::: ... = -::...... Set Design by RICHARD G. MASON %+·--- ,; ~ yr' Costumes by SANDRA FINNEY Lighting and Technical Direction by MARK BOYD

Original Music composed by DON SLEPIAN and PETER CORAGGIO, realized at the Sinergia Electronic Music Studio, Honolulu.

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December 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15 at 8 p.m. December 16 at 2 p.m. Kennedy Theatre University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii THE CAST (in order' of speaking) INTRODUCING THE DIRECTOR

lndra Paul Cravath Edward Payson Call has in the last year staged lndra's Daughter Shari Au works in Los Angeles and San Diego, The Guide Vincent Priore California, Chicago, Illinois, Seattle, The Officer David Johnson Washington and Princeton, New Jersey. The Mother Carol Honda Since leaving the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in The Father James Benton Minneapolis, Minnesota (a theatre with Lin a Bonnie Creamer which he was associated over a period The Gatekeeper Pamela Viera ~ of seven years, rising from Stage Manager The Billposter Michael Cowell to be the Producing Director of the Victoria Sari Moss company), Mr. Call has made itinerant First Member stage direction a way of life, rarely of the Ballet Company Leslie Endo ' staying for more than six weeks in any Second Member given location including his home, of the Ballet Company Luella Costello which he makes in New York City. The Prompter Mike Nobriga For the Guthrie Theatre he directed The Policeman Kevin Murphy two Brecht productions, THE CAUCASIAN The Lawyer Earll Kingston CHALK CIROLE and ARTURO Ul (the Kristin Carol Honda latter touring to New York and Los Angeles) The Quarantine Master Michael Cowell in addition to Shakespeare's JULIUS The Poet James Benton CAESAR and AS YOU LikE IT and The Old Roue Hal Finley Slavomir Mrozek's TANGO. The Retired Man Kevin Murphy Among the other for which Victoria's Lover Tola Bennington Mr. Call has directed are The Seattle The Schoolmaster Kevin Murphy Repertory Company (CHILD'S PLAY). The Naval Officer Hal Finley American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, The Blind Man Steve Feher Connecticut (THE TEMPEST), The Edith Elizabeth Scheuer American Conservatory Theatre, San Edith's Mother Pamela Viera Francisco (ENDGAME, THE SEA GULL). Alice Luella Costello and The San Diego Shakespeare Festival (KING LEAR, TWELFTH NIGHT, RICHARD Dream People, Members of the Ballet Ill). Troupe, People at Foulstrand and Fair­ Besides directing plays he has at various cove, Students, etc.: Michael Cowell, times been an actor. a stage manager, a ball Mike Nobriga, Hal Finley, Steve Feher, room dance instructor, a distributor of soap Leslie Endo, Beverly Chang, Khamtoun coupons, a ranch hand and a college bum. Choummany, Sari Moss, Elizabeth Mr. Call is enchanted with his first stay in Scheuer, Tricia Ely, Tola Bennington, Hawaii and only wishes that his wife Pamela, Carol Honda, Rick Greene, Vincent Priore, who is a model in New York, could join him Ed Baxa, David Larsen, Kevin Murphy, here. Richard Tillotson.

The engagement of Mr. Call, guest director of this production, was made possible by a generous grant from the Charles M. & Anna 8 9 C. Cooke Trust. PRODUCTION STAFF alternating with boisterous merriment, and nothing in between. Unreasoning hatred, Stage Manager: Cho Yee Wong distorted ideas about the other's intentions Assistant Stage (the so-called misunderstanding)·; attacks Manager: Ken Rohde of persecution mania, during which they Lighting Crew: Jim Takahashi, Charles Myers Ill suspect the other partner of spying on them, of setting traps for them, of hounding Sound Crew: Bud Cornell them, why even of seeking to take their life, Property Crew: Sari Moss especially by means of poison. Costume Crew: Peggy Egbert- Crew Head: Kitty -Strindberg, The Cloister Heacox, Cynthia Kunishige, Lynne Tanaka, Lynn Tsuruda, Kate McBride, Irene Ohashi, Coco Offer, 1893 On May 2, on the island of Heligoland, Jan Shipley, Molly Burns, Cassie Strindberg marries (1872-1943). Tudor. Fifi Newcomb, Fujie Kajikawa Technicians: Ken Rohde, Charles Myers Ill, and Frida's sister, Maria ... wrote a penetrating the students of Drama 240 and 299 description of him, which reads, in part: Photography: Francis Haar "He manages to remain absorbed in his Properties: thoughts for a quarter of an hour at a time, Elizabeth Wichmann not saying a word and not hearing what is Set Designer's said to him. I can ·never shake off the fear Assistant: Richard P. Romer of seeing him suddenly go insane. At the Publicity: Jemm Ker and Kitty Heacox same time he more and more impresses me as a great genius ... He gave himself up Box Office: Condelita Almazan, Kathleen to scientific experiments ... he also paints; Morishige, Sidney Pilares, Kerry Taggart there, too, he is a law unto himself, natu­ ralistic he calls it ... He is so House Managers: Farouk Wang assisted by Nancy full of talent that he doesn't seem to know Castle, Jim Farmer, A ileen Hamal, what to do with it. But his is not a joyful way Carole Ann Hee, Phylis Look, of creating. It is more like the savage Alberta Nobu, Debra Ridenour, Donna Ridenour impulse driving a murderer to his crime. To me he is uncanny. I cannot understand Ushers: Radford Keyettes, Roosevelt High Frida, nor how she dares entrust her future School (NHS), lolani Drama Group, to the hands of such a man." Castle High School Thespian Troupe 566, Waipahu High School (NHSJ, -Randolph Goodman, From Script to Stage Sacred Hearts Academy (NHS) 1897 Divorce from Frida Uhl. Another stay in DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND THEATRE . Publishes Inferno, an autobiographical novel. FACULTY: Bernard F. Dukore, Chairman; Mark Boyd, James Brandon, Glenn Cannon. Dennis Carroll, Elizabeth At last my wish was fulfilled. I was the Cole, Sandra Finney, Tamara Hunt, Terence Knapp, renowned and admired genius-and the Edward Langhans, Richard Mason, Yasuki Sasa, Joel most despised man of the century in my Trapido, Carl Wolz country, banished by good society, scorned STAFF: Art Caldeira, Takeo Miji, Nancy Takei, Kozaburo by the smallest of the small, disavowed by Yukihiro my friends, receiving my admirers at night GRADUATE ASSISTANTS: Paul Cravath. Dennis Dubin, and in secret! Yes, the whole world bows Nell Fuson, Catherine Heacox, Tomas Hernandez, Jemm before the moral code while only a minority Kerr. Carol Murota, Richard Romer, William Saylor. reverence genius-which gives rise to Elizabeth Wichmann interesting thoughts about the nature of morality! And the other side of the medal is worse ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS still. Truth! The University Theatre wishes to thank Suzanne Bowen -Strindberg, Jacob Wrestles of Graphic Media Design for the poster design. and · Gay Burk, Masao Miyamoto and Michael Tamaru of the University Relations Office for their generous You have guided my destiny ill; you have assistance. made me and commissioned me to chastise, to overthrow idols, to stir up revolt, and then Program prepared by Sara Edlin, Jemm Kerr. Edward Langhans. you withdraw your protection from me and disown me in an absurd way, telling me to creep to the cross and repent! . . . When young I was sincerely pious, and you have made me a free-thinker. Out of the free-thinker you have made me an atheist, and out of the atheist a religious man. 11 Inspired by humanitarian ideas, I have been a herald of . Five years later, you September, in mid-October, and have shown me the absurdity of socialism; on November 5 he concludes, for the time you have made all my prophecies futile. And supposing I again become religious, I am being, with Christ. sure that in another ten years, you will reduce religion to an absurdity. 1904 Divorce from , in November. Ah, what a game the gods play with us poor mortals. Ultimately there come moments for me - Strindberg. Inferno when only something in the nature of Buddhism helps. Only very rarely does one 1898 Strindberg completes , Part I get what one wishes for, so what good does it do to wish? Wish for nothing, ask nothing on March 6, To Damascus, Part II on July 17. of people and of life and you w il l always feel that you have received more than you 1899 In the fall, he returns permanently to could have asked for. And you know from Stockholm. experience that after you got what you wished for, it wasn't so much the thing it­ self that made you happy as it was the fact 1900 In October and November, he writes . that your wish came true. About this time Strindberg meets the actress There are times. when some being inside Harriet Bosse. On October 31 , he completes me asks: "Do you really believe all this?" I the marital drama The Dance of Death, immediately silence the questioner, for I Part I; Part II follows in December. know that belief is only a state of soul and not an act of the intellect. 1901 In May he marries Harriet Bosse (1878- - Strindberg. Alone 1961 ). In July Strindberg writes To 1907 February 13 sees the completion of the first Damascus, Part Ill; on September 3, he chamber play, The Thunderstorm; the completes the historical drama Engelbrekt, second, After the Fire, is finished in early ' and on September 23, Christina. A Dream March, and the third, , on Play is completed end of November. March 8. Am reading about the teachings of the Indian religion.- The whole world purely an April 15th, 1907. Today, at 12 o'clock (it is illusion . . . The divine archpower . . . let now 10:30) , there is to be a dress-rehearsal itself be seduced by Maja or the urge of of A Dream Play. The odd thing is that I procreation. The divine archmatter thereby wrote this play after 40 days of suffering committed a sin against itself (love is sin; (Aug., Sept. 1901), at a time when Harriet this is why the torment of love is the worst had left me, bearing with her my last child, hell there is). The world thus exists purely then unborn. Now, when it is about to be because of a sin, if indeed it does exist- for performed, I have, for 40 days, been in a it is merely a vision seen in a dream (thus depressed (black) inferno-like mood and my Dream Play an image of life), a phantom afflicted by domestic misery. whose destruction is the task of asceticism. • • • • • .. • * * • • • • • But that task is at odds with the urge to love, and the final result is an incessant A kind of calm, resigned feeling of uncer­ vacillation between the turmoil of the tainty prevails within me. I ask myself if flesh and penitential torment!-That some catastrophe will not prevent the play's seems to be the solution to the riddle of the being performed, if in fact it may be world!- 1 discovered the foregoing in the performed. True, I have talked nicely to history of literature, just when I had intended people; but to wish to influence Him who to conclude the dream play . . . That was rules the world is presumptuous (perhaps on the 18th, in the morning. But on that blasphemous). The fact that I have revealed morning I saw the castle (- the barracks of the relative nothingness of life (Buddhism), the Horse Guards) as if it were bathed in its insane contradictions, its wickedness the light of the rising sun.-Now the " Indian and unruliness, may be regarded as praise­ religion" has given me the explanation of worthy, if it imbues people with resignation, my dream play, and of the meaning of and to have shown that man is relatively lndra's daughter, the secret of the Door­ guiltless in a life which of itself entails guilt, Nothingness.- AII day 1 read about is surely no bad thing .. . But ... Buddhism. - Strindberg, From an Diary - Strindberg, From an Occult Diary 1907 A Dream Play, premiere April 17 at the 1903 Strindberg continues work on his " world- Swedish Theater in Stockholm, with Harriet 12 historical series with in mid- 13 Bosse as lndra's Daughter. In this dream play, as in his former dream pendent personages. sometimes as a single play To Damascus, the Author has sought individual, depending on the circumstances. to reproduce the disconnected but ap­ It is much the same in To Damascus. Here, parently logical form of a dream. Anything the Officer represents the romantic hero, can happen; everything is possible and the Lawyer is the bickering husband, the probable. Time and space do not exist; on Quarantine Master, the merciless critic, a slight groundwork of reality, imagination while the Poet is the lover of beauty in his spins and weaves new patterns made up of creative aspect, and is consequently more memories, experiences, unfettered fancies, closely identified with the author. absurdities and improvisations. - Maurice Valen cy, The Flower and the Castle The characters are split, double and multiply; they evaporate, crystallise, scatter and converge. But a single consciousness 1907 On November 26, the Intimate Theater, holds sway over them all-that of the under the direction of August Falck and dreamer. For him there are no secrets, no Strindberg, opens with The Pelican. incongruities, no scruples and no law. He neither condemns nor acquits but only relates, and since on the whole, there is 1909 In the spring, Strindberg writes his last more pain than pleasure in the dream, a drama, . tone of melancholy, and of compassion for all living things, runs through the swaying 1910 The Intimate Theater closes its doors on narrative. Sleep, the liberator, often appears December 11 . as a torturer, but when the pain is at its worst, the sufferer awakes- and is thus reconciled with reality. For however This is ultimately what it is like to be alone: agonising real life may be, at this moment, you spin yourself into the silk of your soul, compared with the tormenting dream, it is you become a pupa and await the meta­ a joy. morphosis, which is certain to come. While waiting, you live on your past experiences - Strindberg, A Dream Play and telepathically you live the lives of others. Death and resurrection; being reared Aside from the Daughter of lndra, A Dream and trained for something new and strange. Play has four principal characters: the - Strindberg. Alone Officer, the Lawyer, the Quarantine Master, and the Poet. Whatever else they may be or represent, these characters, evidently, 1912 May 14: Strindberg dies of cancer. are four aspects of the author, and in - chronology from Gunnar Ollen, their composite life is indicated his manifold August Strindberg nature. Moreover, since Strindberg cherished the idea that men lead several lives simultaneously, the four characters are thought of sometimes as four inde-

Scene design sketched by Strindberg for A Dream Play. The borders were to represent clouds, and the castle in the background was to be half hidden by clouds. Three painted panels on each side of the stage would revolve and suggest the locales of the various scenes. From 14 Falck, Five Years with Strindberg.