From convent school to the Cabaré stages, Frida Uhl moved between Paris, London, New York and Berlin wearing her exclusive leopard coat. Her life was lined with scandals and breakneck projects.
Frida Uhl was a jack-of-all-trades and a hard-working theater and art critic, known today more for being "Strindberg's second wife" than for her influence on modern literature and cultural life. In this performance, her exciting life is dramatized.
She championed women's right to sexual liberation and intellectual acumen. In the performing arts, she was a pioneer with a keen sense of the new trends. She set up cabaret stages and created networks for artists, performers and entrepreneurs. She translated her lovers' lyrics into several languages and created jobs for them around the world. At the end of her life, she moved to the United States, where she gave lectures on August Strindberg and discovered the latest new medium - film!
By dramatizing parts of Frida's life taken from her own notes, letters and texts, Strindberg's intimate theatre wants to shed light on her outstanding work, her courage and how she points the way for us towards renewal and development in the future. In the performing arts, she was a pioneer with a keen sense of the new trends; she set up cabaret stages and created networks for artists, performers and entrepreneurs. During her travels, she translated her husbands' texts into several languages (including Strindberg's Scientific Writings into English) and created jobs for them around the world. She also had two children: Friedrich (with Frank Wedekind) and Kerstin (with August Strindberg).
Lunch theater at 12:00 - food from 11:30: Creamy mushroom soup with thyme oil. Includes soft bread, seeds, coffee and dry cake.
Dinner theater at 18:00 - food from 17:15: Henrik's good meat soup with dumplings. Includes baguette, butter, cheese, coffee and dry cake.
IN ENGLISH:
February 16-17, Frida Uhl
Dramatization of Frida Uhl's life. She is one of many forgotten professional women who purposefully and riskily fought for artistic freedom and women's rights.
Press quote:
"Strindberg's Intimate Theater is once again an avant-garde stage that questions the great institution."
"It is a very Pettersonian and therefore worth seeing production."
..."a non-realistic acting style that speaks to the audience and fills the stage with an intelligent humor that bubbles with rebellion against all conventions."
"Strindberg's second wife goes again with bravura"
/SvD
"a completely irresistible attack in the expression"
/Expressen
