Creditors, The Donmar Warehouse, BAM, NYC, by Ilya Khodosh

Owen Teale and Tom Burke in Creditors (photo by Richard Termine)

Creditors

by August Strindberg
in a new version by David Greir

Directed by Alan Rickman

The Donmar Warehouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC

With Tom Burke - Adolph
Owen Teale - Gustav
Anna Chancellor - Tekla

Strindberg’s Creditors

 is a turbulent study of marriage as hell. Relationships turn vile, and contemptuous lovers hurl sarcastic barbs and accusations at one another like poisoned arrows. The fragile foundations of love crack under pressure and allegiances turn and return and turn again. The new production of this ferocious three-hander, directed by Alan Rickman, is a smart, if heavy-handed, barrage of recriminations and abuse. Insight and authentic emotion are buried beneath the avalanche of cynicism, but Creditors invigorates with its hard-boiled sexual politics and crisp articulations of hate.
Read the full review on the Berkshire Review for the Arts!

Michael Miller