MR. BENGT'S WIFE Receives Staged Reading at Railroad Playhouse, 8/27
By: Lauren Wolman Aug. 22, 2011
This summer's unique theatrical event, the American premiere of Mr. Bengt's Wife, by Sweden's most famous playwright, August Strindberg, will have a staged reading at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh, NY on Saturday, August 27th, 2011 at 2: 00 p.m.
Mr. Bengt's Wife, newly translated by Laurence Carr and Malin Tybahl, and written in 1882 as a rebuttle to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Never before appearing in English, the play utilizes realism, expressionism, melodrama, and dreamscape to tell the story of the rebellious Margit, whose quest to become an independent New Woman, catches her in a maze that bounces her from nunnery to castle, with a husband and two lovers vying for her attention.The play is one of a series of new translations of the works of Strindberg created by the team of Laurence Carr, playwright and professor of Dramatic and Creative Writing at SUNY New Paltz, and Malin Tybahl, a NYC stage and film actress, theatre workshop director and native of Sweden. Their previous translation was Strindberg's one-act comedy, Playing With Fire, a caustic look at infidelity and sexual identity. Other translations are currently in progress.
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