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A performance of the final two of the three scenes or 'movements' of Strindberg's chamber play written in 1907. Scenes from the first 'movement' are included as flashbacks. Joseph O'Conor plays Hum...mel, a vindictive crippled businessman who attempts to bring down and expose everyone around him. Beatrix Lehmann plays his former lover who now lives in a cupboard and thinks she's a parrot. The two young lovers, whose passion is corrupted by surrounding evil, are played by David Troughton and Anne Kidd. The play was translated by Michael Meyer.
A performance of the final two of the three scenes or 'movements' of Strindberg's chamber play written in 1907. Scenes from the first 'movement' are included as flashbacks. Joseph O'Conor plays Hum...mel, a vindictive crippled businessman who attempts to bring down and expose everyone around him. Beatrix Lehmann plays his former lover who now lives in a cupboard and thinks she's a parrot. The two young lovers, whose passion is corrupted by surrounding evil, are played by David Troughton and Anne Kidd. The play was translated by Michael Meyer.
| Module code and title: | A307, Drama |
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| Item code: | A307; 10 |
| First transmission date: | 21-09-1977 |
| Published: | 1977 |
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| Duration: | 00:50:00 |
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| Producer: | Richard Callanan |
| Contributors: | Grace Arnold Schlesinger; Basil Clarke; Susie Clarke; Gerald Cross; Hope Jackman; Paddy Joyce; Anne Kidd; Beatrix Lehmann; Frank Middlemass; Joseph O'Conor; David Troughton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Footage description: | Brian Stone provides a brief introduction to the play, over a portrait of Strindberg. This performance consists of the whole of Scenes II and III, together with extracts from Scene I appearing as flashbacks. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71987 |
| Production number: | 00525_3230 |
| Videofinder number: | 3299 |
| Available to public: | no |
