Creditors (play)
"[9] This three-character play takes place in a parlor adjoined to a room in a seaside resort hotel.
Adolph credited his wife, Tekla, for educating him, but as he opens up to Gustav about his marriage, he starts changing his mind about how happy he is.
The audience begins to suspect that Gustav is, in fact, Tekla's ex-husband, about whom the two men speak constantly.
They have fallen into the habit of calling themselves "brother and sister", because when she was being stolen away from her first husband, they both were attempting to feign a chaste relationship.
As Gustav prepares to leave Tekla, the door opens and Adolph appears in the throes of an epileptic seizure and falls to the floor, dead.
[7] A new production was staged at the Swedish Theatre in Stockholm as part of a matinée double-bill with Simoon (a short, 15-minute play), which opened on 25 March 1890.
[14] Helge Wahlgren, an actor from the Intimate Theatre, toured a production of the play in the Swedish provinces in the autumn of 1909.
[18] The play received its German premiere on 22 January 1893 at the Residenz Theatre in Berlin, under the direction of Sigismund Lautenburg.
[23] Its French premiere opened on 21 June 1894, in a slightly abridged version at the Théâtre de L'Oeuvre in Paris.
[27] The play was first produced in Britain by the Stage Society at the Prince's Theatre in London, in a translation by Ellie Schleussner, opening on 10 March 1912.
[8] The 59 Theatre Company staged a translation by Michael Meyer at the Lyric Opera House in London, opening on 3 March 1959.
[citation needed] A production at the Almeida Theatre, which opened on 19 May 1986, was recorded and subsequently broadcast on Channel 4 on 16 March 1988.
[citation needed] The play was produced by the Torquay Company at the Mermaid Theatre in New York, opening on 25 January 1962.
[31] The play was later staged as part of a double-bill with The Stronger by The Public Theater at the Newman Theatre, New York, opening on 15 April 1977.
[33] Carey Perloff directed and Donald Eastman designed this production, which featured a new translation by Paul Walsh.
[33] In 2010, a production directed by actor Alan Rickman was performed at Donmar Warehouse in London and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
[34][35][36] The play was produced in French, under the title Les Créanciers, by the Comédie-Française, in Paris, opening on 20 June 2018.
Translated into Estonian as Võlausaldajad, the film starred Terje Pennie as Tekla, Arvo Kukumägi as Adolf, and Sulev Luik as Gustav.
