Schnitzler

“It was an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘La Ronde.’

Schnitzler led straight to Frank Wedekind.

Among those who accepted the invitation were banker Hjalmar Schacht, who would later become the Third Reich's chief finance minister; Georg von Schnitzler, head of the chemical and pharmaceutical giant I.G.

Schnitzler, one of the convicted I.G.

A Northern California native, Benson co-founded the Orange Country theater with fellow founding artistic director David Emmes in 1964, after the two San Francisco State graduates collaborated on a 1963 production of Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde” at Long Beach’s Off-Broadway Theatre.