In this project we look at Nordic naturalist works from late 19th century (from multiple genres, but with main focus on theatre) to see how they can be used as sources for visionary performances in the 21st century. To give an example of an inspiration, we quote Wikipedia on August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie.”
“In the play he [Strindberg] used Charles Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest and dramatised a doomed sexual encounter that crosses the division of social classes. It is believed that this play was inspired by the marriage of Strindberg, the son of a servant, to an aristocratic woman. [Siri von Essen, pictured above]. In the essay On Psychic Murder (1887), he referred to the psychological theories of the Nancy School, which advocated the use of hypnosis. Strindberg developed a theory that sexual warfare was not motivated by carnal desire but by relentless human will. The winner was the one who had the strongest and most unscrupulous mind, someone who, like a hypnotist, could coerce a more impressionable psyche into submission.”
More soon.