The 'self-experimenter': Howard Brenton on Strindberg in crisis
Brenton's new play 'The Blinding Light' tells the story of August Strindberg's Paris breakdownI wrote The Blinding Light to try to understand the mental and spiritual crisis that August Strindberg suffered in February 1896. Deeply disturbed, plagued by hallucinations, he holed up in various hotel rooms in Paris, most famously in the Hotel Orfila in the Rue d'Assas.