Swedish Voices are Breaking Through
The Columbia Swedish Program Presents
BREAKING THROUGH
2 SWEDISH VOICES FROM THE 1880s
at 7 p.m., Monday, April 7, 2008, at
Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116th Street, N.Y.C.
(between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive)
Two monologues by much-loved writers
from Scandinavia’s 19th-century Modern Breakthrough period.
The public is invited, and admission is free.
A reception will follow.
Recordings of the texts, read by Greer and Gibson, will be available for sale after the
program.
For further information: Tel.: 212-854-4015; e-mail: vam1@columbia.edu.
Director/actor Robert Greer
will present his rendition of a
radically mind-boggling
sermonette by August
Strindberg (his favorite
author) entitled “A Little
Catechism for the Lower
Class.”
Followed by a dramatization
of the classic
feminist short story
“From the Dark” by
Victoria Benedictsson,
recreated by the muchacclaimed
actor
Meg Gibson.