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"When Strindberg abdanons the 'dialogue according to the French pattern', he allows 'minds to work without any rule just as they do in reality, when a discussion never covers a subject adequately, but minds excite each other with baits, which they pounce on again and again'. (…) Sfumato Theatre has given a new title to the performance which is too often built around the star actress playing the title role. The stage is dominated by cold, metal kitchen furniture; it is excessively disinfected like a laboratory or a hospital. The cleanliness is terrifying. Water boils in the pots to wash down dirt. Sewage-water flows through a trench in the foreground. Sfumato cooks the performance in this almost clinical environment." (J.-P. T.)