The Ghost Sonata

Ghost Sonata, The (Spöksonaten)

    Alternative Title: The Spook Sonata

    Author: August Strindberg

    First Performance: 1908, Stockholm

    Published: 1907

    First English Translation: 1916

    Genre: Drama in 3 scenes; Swedish prose

    Setting: Fashionable house and the street outside, 1900s

    Cast: 7m, 8f, extras

The Student (Arkenholz), weary after spending much of the night rescuing people from a collapsed house, meets a sinister Old Man (Jacob Hummel). The Old Man asks the Student to attend a concert, so that he may meet the Colonel and his daughter (the Young Lady). The Colonel lives in the house with his wife, a Mummy; the Dark Lady (or Lady in Black), daughter of the Caretaker's Wife by the Dead Man (the late Consul who lived upstairs); and the Fiancée, formerly...

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