by AUGUST STRINDBERG translated by MICHAEL MEYER
This British premiere is produced by MARTIN JENKINS with Alan Dobie , Lee Montague Clive Morton , Kate Binchy
Erik is King of Sweden. A mentally unstable man, he has become involved in a bitter, jealous feud with the Swedish nobility, who resent his employment of commoners in key government positions and his choice of a peasant girl as a mistress.
The action of the play takes place in and around Stockholm and Uppsala in the years 1566 and 1568.
