Orange Tree theatre, LondonDirector Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish tragedian's play about how people use each other up in love and art In an interview before his production of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, the director Michael Blakemore reported telling the cast to aim for "Strindberg with laughs". The line suggests a gulf between the Swedish dark tragedian and English light comedian but the dramatists…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM on September 14, 2025