Just an Empty Page

A white room with three windows that bring light from above. The level of the blinds change the mood of the space from mysterious to neutral and then sick-depressing. In August Strindberg’s “Creditors” there are three characters all of them strongly tied together. They feed and eat each other. They grow, gain a certain shape or lose identity and purpose in life completely. Who’s right and who is to be blamed? The dialogues are battles in a war that never ends. Even if what we see are three stereotypes their plans, tricks and feelings seem so familiar. The giver and the taker are all subjected to pay debt at one point. In a different way but still painful. In Strindberg’s  world relationships are doomed to reach levels of blindness and self-destruction. His play was inspired by reality- the way he saw and experienced it. People destroy their love in infinite sad ways until they become empty inside. Like an empty white page where as audience you draw the conclusions you want but for the three main characters nothing important will be written anymore. From pure innocent white we go to insanity and a look of a hospital. The room has changed although on the surface everything stays the same. In my opinion Alan Rickman is a great actor but after seeing “Creditors” at BAM I respect him as a director too.