PARALYSIE GÉNÉRALE

Original titlePARALYSIE GÉNÉRALE
CategoryMonologue
AgegroupAdults
Cast1 total (1 M)
Variable cast sizeNo
RepresentationWorldwide representation
LanguagesSwedish

Most of the texts in this fragmentary monologue consist of unaffected Strindberg quotes collected from the posthumous letters from the period after the divorce from Frida Uhl to just before the Inferno crisis. The year is roughly 1896, but the material seems oddly modern: desperation, personal disappointments, shattering self-confidence and despair are some of the issues this text deals with. We see a man with 100 thoughts, yet he is unable to express more than one at a time. It is an abstract monologue, reflecting how it could look inside the head of a human being – text fragments and parts of thoughts strike against each other, creating new meanings in an unpredictable course of events. Performed with great success at Dramatens Elverket 2004.