Hello byquist. Yes, Strindberg is an outstanding playwright. I remember when I first read him as a highly impressionable teen and being blown away by the sharp and hitting quality of his realistic and imaginary settings.
I don't know where Easter was written, but the funny thing is he wrote it together with The Dance of Death and the contradictory nature of both works couldn't complement more clearly the man's complicated personality.
You mentioned meeting a teacher / director who's students changed after performing a Strindberg play. What play did they perform that affected them so much and what change occured with them? The British actor Robert Loraine said when he first read The Father ( that's the title ) to his wife she fell on her knees half-way through the play to assure him that his children were his and not to believe a single word of the play. He commented: "If it upsets you like that, there must be something in it". It's amazing the effect Strindberg's plays can have on people.
Seeing your nic I can't help but wonder, are you Swedish?
Jean-Baptiste: I look forward to reading the plays of Maeterlinck, he was a good poet and is considered to be one of the pioneers of absurdist theater. It's too bad his works in the latter are out of print in english.
Thanks Ahmed-Ahdel. I was going through Miller's Death of a Salesman a few weeks ago and it's an interesting work.
