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- 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.