Easter (play)

{{Short description|1901 religious drama}}

{{Infobox play

|name=Easter

|image=Påsk 1946.jpg

|caption=Doris Svedlund as Eleonora and Dora Söderberg as Mother in a 1946 production

|premiere=1901

|place=Intima Teatern

|writer=August Strindberg

|genre=Religious drama

}}

Easter ({{langx|sv|Påsk}}) is a symbolic religious drama from 1901 by Swedish playwright August Strindberg.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Strindberg, Johan August |first=O. |last=Thyregod |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/22/0461.html |language=Danish |editor=Brøndum-Nielsen, Johs. |editor2=Raunkjær, Palle |edition=2 |volume=XXII |year=1927 |page=447 |publisher=J.H. Schultz |location=Copenhagen }}{{cite book |title=The Living Stage |url=https://archive.org/details/livingstagehisto00macg |url-access=registration |first=Kenneth |last=Magowan |first2=William |last2=Melnitz |page=[https://archive.org/details/livingstagehisto00macg/page/413 413] |year=1955 |publisher=Prentice-Hall}}

The play was produced by the Stockholm ensemble Intima Teatern, which also toured other Scandinavian countries, including performances of Påsk in Kristiania. It was the first of Strindberg's plays that was staged in Bergen, premiering at Den Nationale Scene in September 1909.{{cite book |title=Den Nationale Scene 1901-31 |first=Asbjørn |last=Aarseth|authorlink=Asbjørn Aarseth|pages=220–221 |location= Oslo |year=1969 |language=Norwegian |publisher=Gyldendal}}

A revival set in Harlem and performed with an African American cast was well received.[http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/theater/reviews/easter-by-strindberg-at-the-gene-frankel-theater.html Uplift From a Gloomy Gus: ‘Easter,’ by Strindberg, at the Gene Frankel Theater] by Ken Jaworowski, New York Times, March 21, 2013 That production closed on Easter Sunday, 2013.