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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The way he embraced so startlingly, electric with the voltage of life, the beings created only in words by Shakespeare, Strindberg, Brecht, Beckett oh, you name them, from the volumes holding down the letter telling of that Saturday.

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