In Strindberg\u2019s A Dream Play<\/i>, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image. As Strindberg himself wrote in his Preface, he wanted \u201cto imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caryl Churchill\u2019s spare and resonant new version was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in a production by Katie Mitchell, where A Dream Play<\/i> was called \u201cfresh, new and magical\u201d (Telegraph<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Caryl Churchill<\/b> has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest<\/i> and A Number<\/i>. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

August Strindberg <\/b>(1849-1912) was a novelist and playwright from Stockholm, Sweden. His plays include Miss Julie, The Father, To Damascus, A Dream Play<\/i>, and The Pelican<\/i>. In 1912 Strindberg’s birthday was marked by a torchlight procession through Stockholm, where his radical journalism had earned him the title of \u2018people\u2019s writer.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Strindberg\u2019s A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image. As Strindberg himself wrote in his Preface, he wanted \u201cto imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4519,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n