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Soon, romour spread that Falck — with Strindberg as inspiration and sympathiser — was opening a new literary stage in the capital. It took until the summer of to find the space, a former warehouse at Norra Bantorget, which would come to house Intima Teatern for three years.
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During the fall it was furnished with a small stage, four by six meters, a small auditorium with seats, but also what was at the time a very advanced lighting system, 9 individual dressing rooms for the actors and lavish foyers without drink services. What might be called the first alternative theater in Stockholm had been created.
The ensemble at Intima Teatern of young actors, some from the school of Dramaten the Royal Dramatic Theater and some from various traveling theater companies. Finances were already strained from the renovation — Strindberg had to step in as a financier — and were met by often unsympathetic criticism. Strindberg was a controversial person, especially after the publication of the satricial novel Svarta Fanor Black Banners Despite an ambitious program, many performances at Intima Teatern stage and a busy touring schedule, the venture remained financially shaky.
Yet there was a growing and largely continually current repertoire; successful pieces ran for a long time while for instance the chamber plays had shorter runs. The performance schedule, with the Stockholm players and the traveling provincial troupe performed different pieces, on weekends two or three different shows on the same day, shows that the theater served as a video store or a cable TV company with pay per view for Strindberg supporters.
The Intimate Theatre 1907-1910
Even so, they were never able to reach enough theatrical connaisseurs with each performance and the performance structure, as demanding as it was to the actors, did not bring the necessary financial returns. The theater went bankrupt in late Per Stam. Hoppa till innehåll Strindbergs Intima teater Intima teatern In September of a young traveling theater director and actor, August Falck, put on the play Fröken Julie Miss Julie for the first time in Sweden.
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Studier i Strindbergs kammarspel Lars Löfgren, Svensk Teater Tjugoandra samlingen