Strindberg’s distinctive one-act play as proponent naturalism (theatre), embodies a theatrical style with psychological cause and effect.
[12][13][14]The play was also produced in a translated/directed production by Mr. Greer in October/November 2012 on a double bill with Casper’s Fat Tuesday (the latter translated by Jonathan Howard and presented with Pink Pig Ballet) in association with Theater Resources Unlimited.
The production was also billed as Strindberg's Women, was translated by Michael Meyer, directed by Jake Murray with Sarah Griffiths (Mrs, X) and Alice Frankham (Miss Y) in a November 2016 run.
[17][18][19] The Gamut Theatre Group in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania presented the play on a double bill with The Outcast under the title; 2 by Strindberg, in April 2022 productions.
The play has also been expanded and adapted into a forty-minute English-language Spanish zarzuela (2010), with text by Christopher Webber and music by Derek Barnes.
[23] The play was adapted by Frank McGuiness and directed by Lia Williams for Tightrope Pictures (2007) with Claire Higgins and Fiona O’Shaughnessy.
Aside from the provocative autobiographical content of his work, Strindberg’s achievement rests on his perfection of the naturalistic form, his extension of that form into an imaginative forum for modern psychology, and his movement from dramatic realism to expressionism.”[25] Egil Törnqvist writes; “the respective strength of the two women in the play cannot easily be determined, because Strindberg could not make up his mind about the strength of the models for them.
He saw some virtue, or at least some attraction, in each; hence the delicate balance between the characters representing these contrasting dispositions.”[26] Of the Public Theatre production, Clive Barnes wrote: “ ‘The Stronger’ is a tour de force about the theatricality of silence.
Mr. Torn directs here with resource.”[27] Kerrry Clawson wrote of the Cesear’s Forum work; “Maloney’s Mme X has an antagonizing yet somewhat desperate air, while Regnier beautifully shows Mlle Y’s cold contempt without speaking at all.