Hardy's staging captures the nightmarishly comical yet chilling atmosphere that Strindberg must have envisioned for this poisonous couple.

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His long, lesser-known career in theatre directing, in Gothenburg, Malmo and Stockholm, included comedies alongside his favourite Strindberg.

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There will also be productions of Pinter's A Slight Ache - one of his early one-act plays, Strindberg's Miss Julie and Philip Pullman's Clockwork, as well as live music and comedy.

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