on Strindbergs To Damascus
In the play the central character. the Stranger - trying to understand who and where he is - unrolls his past life in a sequence of sharply contrasted and critical scenes until it comes back. but with an altered consciousness, to the point where he began. Characters merge and fragment, moving between past and present, between substance and seeming, dissolve, re-form, and, in new ways, connect,
(The first part of To Damascus: next Sunday on Radio 3)