August StrindBerg Translations
Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire
A One-Act Comedy
by
August Strindberg
in a new translation
by
Malin Tybåhl and Laurence Carr
Copyright 2006 by the translators
Sarah Hutchinson as Kerstin and Jazman Jackson as Adele
Characters:
Newt, 27, an artist, a bohemian
Kerstin, 24, his wife
Mother, late 50s (Newt’s mother)
Father, late 50s, (Newt’s father)
Adele, 21, Newt’s cousin
Axel, 26, a friend of Newt and Kerstin, a poet/academic
A lakeside summer house on the coast of Sweden. A chilly early fall morning, 1912
This translation also works to set the play in an art colony near Woodstock, NY, 1912.
The premiere of Playing With Fire, a one act comedy by August Strindberg, in a new translation by Malin Tybahl and Laurence Carr and directed by David Cohen was produced by the SUNY Orange Apprentice Players, Orange Hall Theatre, SUNY Orange, during the weekends of Nov. 7-9 and 14-16, 2014.
A One-Act Comedy
by
August Strindberg
in a new translation
by
Malin Tybåhl and Laurence Carr
Copyright 2006 by the translators
Sarah Hutchinson as Kerstin and Jazman Jackson as Adele
Characters:
Newt, 27, an artist, a bohemian
Kerstin, 24, his wife
Mother, late 50s (Newt’s mother)
Father, late 50s, (Newt’s father)
Adele, 21, Newt’s cousin
Axel, 26, a friend of Newt and Kerstin, a poet/academic
A lakeside summer house on the coast of Sweden. A chilly early fall morning, 1912
This translation also works to set the play in an art colony near Woodstock, NY, 1912.
The premiere of Playing With Fire, a one act comedy by August Strindberg, in a new translation by Malin Tybahl and Laurence Carr and directed by David Cohen was produced by the SUNY Orange Apprentice Players, Orange Hall Theatre, SUNY Orange, during the weekends of Nov. 7-9 and 14-16, 2014.