by AUGUST STRINDBERG
Translated and adapted for radio in two parts by MICHAEL MEYER with Stephen Murray , Zena Walker
Begun in 1898 while Strindberg was recovering from a mental breakdown, the play deals in dream or nightmare form with the author's difficulties, his marriages and his struggle toward a new religious belief. Part 1
Special sound and music by MALCOLM CLARKE Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX (Part 2: next Sunday)
' When a work on radio lingers in the corners of the mind and haunts the edges of everything else one hears and sees for the rest of the week, one is left in no doubt that it has had a more than normal potency as a work of art.' GUARDIAN