Hotel Strindberg

Jury Statement

Simon Stone has taken on August Strindberg’s furious and yet deeply humane culture of conflict and the result is yet another classic piece of dramatic literature brought up to speed with our current times. “Hotel Strindberg” incorporates elements of a number of rarely considered plays and stories by the restless spirit of August Strindberg (among others “The Father”, “The Ghost Sonata”, “The Pelican” or “Creditors”) as well as events from the life of the dramatist himself – all woven into a kaleidoscope of Strindbergian moments for today. The audience watches simultaneous scenes in the rooms of a hotel, where relationships are at stake non-stop. The show unfolds like a long, rhythmic ballad, with the actors involved in the creation of the sound on a set-up. The conflicts become more and more surreal, characters start to dissolve into a delusional yarn, entirely lost to the world. A masterpiece of rewriting classic literature.