TOWARDS A BOTTOMLESS PIT: THE DRAMATURGY OF SILENCE IN THE STRING QUARTET PLAY STRINDBERG BY IVANA STEFANOVIĆ
TOWARDS A BOTTOMLESS PIT: THE DRAMATURGY OF SILENCE IN THE STRING QUARTET PLAY STRINDBERG BY IVANA STEFANOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with some aspects of the materialization of silence in Ivana Stefanović’s string quartet Play Strindberg (1993). Based on August Strindberg’s drama The Father, it consists of an autonomous whole with its own narration which I explore as being rooted in silence. Thus, the quartet is analyzed and elucidated from the perspective of musically articulated silence whose concrete and particular incentive is pinpointed here in a scene at the end of the second act of Strindberg’s drama. That scene is considered and proved to be the core of the musical dramaturgy of the quartet, given the nature of that silence as the silence of latent conflict, anxiety, dark forebodings and expectations, which functions as a means of musical portrayal of the characters and the irrevocable tragedy of events.

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