cover art by Scott McKowan
"THE FATHER still has the
power to astonish. Richard Nelson's new adaptation of the Swedish
text speaks in clean, spare English prose, the kind that remains
discreetly outside time without betraying the conventions of the
period when the play was written (1887)....
It's not exactly news to report
that THE FATHER is an extraordinary play. The news is that its
ability to shock remains undiminished as, in the course of
twenty-four hours, the increasingly chilly, twenty-year marriage
of the Captain and the willful Laura escalates into a war to the
death. We are deep in territory that Ingmar Bergman would later
explore, though never with quite such harrowing results.
...Mr Nelson's excellent
adaptation."
Vincent Canby, The New York
Times
originally produced by The roundabout Theater Company, New York
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