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Russell Square Players present august strindberg' s CDISS·J\JLIE: ,="=' ·"<J General Information Performances Lost Articles Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 Inquire at the Box Office. p.m.; Sunday matinee the first weekend the show runs at 2:00 p.m. Telephone Reservations Russell Square Players The Box Office is open Monday Mail Orders through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to present All mail orders should be sent to: The 4:00 p.m. The Box Office phone number Russell Square Players, Russell Hall, Uni­ is 780-5483. versity of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine 04038, with a check or money order pay­ Concessions able to University of Maine. General ad­ The concession area is in the main Miss Julie mission $5.00, students $3.00. Please lobby. No food or drink in the audi­ inquire about group discounts. torium. by Rest Rooms Photographs One flight down from the main The taking of photographs in this entrance. theatre is strictly prohibited. August Strindberg Directed by Schedule Change Walter Stump Due to an unforeseen situation, the Square Players' final production. Unfor­ Scenic Design management of the Russell Square tunately, History of the American Film by Players wish to announce changes in the has been removed from circulation by Charles Kading season's program. its publishers for an undisclosed period King Alfred's College will be making of time pending negotiations for film Costume Design an exchange tour with a production to rights. In its place, we are pleased to an­ by USM late in March. They have changed nounce its replacement, The Matchmaker Cil Cutter their selection, and their company will by Thornton Wilder. The Matchmaker is be performing The Royal Pardon by John a delightful comedy of love and philo­ Arden. This play, with a cast of 14, sophy set in New York at the turn of had a successful and extended run in the the century. It is a proper play to herald London theater. our coming spring. A second change deals with Russell The taking of photographs, smoking, drinking, or eating is expressly prohibited within the theatre. ··---------···------------------------------- The Footnote August Strindberg (1849-1912), in age for regarding them as angels. Event­ by extracting the nourishing juices from playwright saw an example of the way his grander moments, saw himself as the ually his plays would show signs of his foods before serving them to him. in which the disintegration of the ruling modern equivalent of the Renaissance stringent bias towards women. However, He suffered from a kind of morbid class was taking place. This class was man. He believed that he had delved into Strindberg was not at any time a woman neatness, and felt that he was constantly weakened and diluted chiefly through the the mysteries of the universe, had traf­ hater; on the contrary, women fascinated defeated in his efforts at housekeeping. looseness of its women. The class was ficked with the dark powers, and had him and he found it impossible to resist A single word was enough to precipitate therefore destined to be overthrown acquired insight into the workings of them. But he eventually found them more a quarrel that might last a week. sooner or later by pressures from below, elemental forces. He was a rebel who interesting as a source of pain than of In 1884, Strindberg published some just as Julie was destroyed by forces defied humanity and bore the marks pleasure, and he sought to marry the short stories, one of which included some emanating from the servile types to whom of his lifelong struggle with God. He the kind of woman who would aid him in unorthodox observations on the subject she was chiefly attracted. Her shame, her believed he was a great Ii berator of his desire to suffer. of Christianity. The author was summoned ruin and that of her father, and the ex­ his time, a martyr, and a messiah. His His first attempt to state a male view to appear on the charge of impiety. He tinction of the line she was meant to scope was vast; his ambitions, cosmic. on the question of feminism came after stood trial and was acquitted. But his fear carry on were all representative incidents After becoming acquainted with reading Ibsen's A Doll's House. Nora, of persecution for his writings did not of the process through which the lower Nietzsche, he came to the realization its heroine, became an emancipated subside, and he became convinced that class would ultimately destroy and that he was a superman. He attributed woman when at the end of the play she the trial had been engineered by a secret supplant the nobility. the hostility he aroused in others as abandoned her husband and children organization of feminists who sought For his remaining twenty-five years, a necessary consequence of his pre­ rather than be a puppet who complied revenge for his earlier piece Sir Bengt's Strindberg led an uncomfortable, self­ eminence and his power. with her mate's whims. Strindberg Wife. These feminists, he suspected, tormented I ife just as he had while True, he was a genius, but a genius answered with the drama Sir Bengt's formed a vast international complex, writing Miss Julie. But regardless of his tormented into the creative act of writing. Wife, in which a woman, after being the ultimate goal of which was the en­ misogynistic attitudes and his paranoia, Each of his three major creative periods slapped by her husband for a childish slavement of men and the re-establish­ he was a playwright of genius who helped followed a separation from one of his act, leaves him only to return after ment of the prehistoric matriarchy. to lead his fellow dramatists first into three wives. To his mind, the human realizing that her duty and her real Strindberg wrote Miss Julie in 1888. theater of realism and later into theater female was a creature who literally desire are to live with him and her child. It was partially a product of his paranoia. of symbolism. defied the order of the universal plan. The play was controversial and raised In Julie's uncontrollable impulses, the In 1876, Strindberg married a young criticism. To answer his critics, Strindberg actress, Siri van Essen. Their union was wrote: "It is about time that people to be an enlightened, modern relation­ begin to trouble themselves-thanks to ship, a comradeship founded on equality a play by the celebrated Norwegian 29 Elm St. and independence. However, Siri's stage bluestocking (lbsen)-over that good career faltered, and she left the theater joke called the feminist question. Now (just off Main St.) after four years to devote herself to her all the soft minds suffer the monomania Gorham, Maine home and husband. Strindberg's plays of seeing oppressed females everywhere. of that period reflected the happy atmo­ As I refuse to be the dupe of this absurd 839-3354 sphere of his domestic life and a belief story, I am called a misogynist for the that the problems of existence found rest of my life." their solutions in love, work, and the home. With the skill of a born dramatist, But the atmosphere changed, and their he was able to arrange situations in real railroad the marriage began to disintegrate. However, life from which he could conclude that a •tation of 1800'•··· in 1882 Strindberg's attitude toward he was being drained intellectually and nou, a unique dininB esperience women was still reasonably objective. emotionally, that he was betrayed, He blamed the French libertinism of the insulted, robbed, and systematically eighteenth century for viewing women as driven into madness. For example, he dolls, and the blind gallantry of his own was convinced that his cook starved him Steaks • Seafood • Cocktails PORT BAKEHOUSE The Cast 773-2217 ~ Miss Julie ................................ Terry Drew ,g,oLLA.a ob Kristin. ..........Karen Rogers -v-V -~~ Jean .................................... Bill Duffy HONEST BREADS ... 'r59W ltl"° ~ i The Townspeople £., ~ ~ EXTRAORDINARY PASTRIES Gigi Antonakos 434 FORE STREET, PORTLAND Victoria A. Charity Sheila Curtis Seth Minton '4.t,l: ao'tf&'t) Kelly Reynolds THE Philip A. Smith BAKERS TABLE Harold Withee Enthusiastically Supports the Arts in Greater Portland * * * The action of the play takes place in the kitchen of the Count's 1111 manor house on Midsummer Eve in Sweden in the 1880s. ·775-0303 Creative cuisine GORHAM4@ Gt1111l c.ot1'Jtll\tt1<.l SAVINGS p·s L~~~~~~ 6 64 Main Street I Gorham. Maine I 839-3342 Of f6l\llt'S iitTl c.llll Standish Branch I Route 25 I 642-4200 I tU,\f,os11ots Oil tllll\ Off\tt. \'Jlt:.\'Jl628S r=OIC Member FDIC Production Staff The Producing Company Walter R. Stump (Director) A native of Theatre Manager .. .. Eileen T. Sanborn Southern California, Stump began his Business Manager .. .. Susan D. Beaulieu theatrical and writing careers at San Stage Manager ...