How do people who once loved each other undeniably, ready to put their lives in the other's hands, slowly begin to drift away from each other? In what way do those seemingly small and unimportant differences, a slightly different approach to the world, suddenly become a fundamental obstacle to communication? Why do those who loved each other drift away, withdraw into their own private worlds, and love is slowly replaced first by indifference and then by open hatred? How do we learn the terrible art of slowly poisoning each other with a silent poison, and then declare a general and all-out merciless war on each other? Why do loved ones stop loving?

In his play, Strindberg accurately and mercilessly analyzes the last phase of this imperceptible transformation - the terrible hatred of his inexorable growth.


Strindberg's work greatly outraged the Swedish society of that time. Spicy themes, modern language, novelty of approach - not at all what traditional entertainment audiences expect. Even the famous "Freken Julia" was built in Sweden only twenty years after its creation.

The psychological drama "The Father" was written by August Strindberg in 1887 - just a year before the publication of the open and painful novel "Confessions of a Madman" based on autobiographical motives.