About the Playwright

Sigbjørn Obstfelder was a young writer in a young nation, this double freshness gave him an intense new perspective. Norway’s new artistic scene was dealing with a large urban migration from a largely rural culture. Considering the anxiety of this modern transformation, it is no surprise that he and his milieu created The Scream. The Red Drops is a theatrical equivalent to Edvard Munch’s painting. We look right into the eyes of someone grappling with fulfillment versus obligation, passion versus career and identity versus community. In our age of emerging personhood, this play is as fresh as can be.

About the Translator

About the Director

Sarah Billings is a writer, theatre artist, and educator living in Philadelphia. She is the associate artistic director of Sewer Rats Productions, co-founder and poetry editor of Worthy Tales Magazine, and a core teaching artist with Yes! And... Collaborative Arts. She studied theatre and playwriting at Barnard College and devised theatre at Bard College Berlin, and now works with a focus on new or rarely staged dramatic works.

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