"La Ronde" author Arthur Schnitzler's works aren't always easily transferred into other media, but the marital team of translator-adapter-star Francesca Faridany and director Stephen Wadsworth have ...

LA JOLLA — In the early days of Sigmund Freud’s musings about the mind, fellow Austrian Arthur Schnitzler, a doctor and writer, covered similar territory in his plays and novels. Today, Schnitzler is ...

From the decadent, erotically charged Vienna of Freud and Klimt comes “Fraulein Else,” a tremulous and breathless amalgam of dreams and hysteria, translated, adapted and acted by the alabaster beauty ...

en in 1924 the great Viennese writer and physician Arthur Schnitzler wrote the story from which this swift and startling play was adapted, the culture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose civilized ...

Fraulein Else: Drama. Adapted from the novella by Arthur Schnitzler and performed by Francesca Faridany. Directed by Stephen Wadsworth. (Through March 28. At the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Thrust ...

Freud regarded Arthur Schnitzler as his literary “double.” He confessed he envied the writer for his insight into the inner workings of the mind. Unfortunately, chances to see Schnitzler’s work and to ...

In adapting a novel to the stage, faithfulness can be a double-edged sword, and "Fraulein Else" at the La Jolla Playhouse demonstrates both blades. It would be hard to imagine an adaptation more ...

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an ...

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Things are looking grim for young Else's family: her father is on the brink of financial ruin, and the future appears bleak. Their only hope? Else is expected to sleep with the wealthy art dealer von ...