Product Description

Following the logic of a dream-in which characters merge, locations change in an instant, and a locked door recurs obsessively-Strindberg's 1902 A Dream Play is a potent mix of Freud plus Alice in Wonderland. Caryl Churchill, perhaps the most fascinating and respected female dramatist in the English-speaking world, has taken on Strindberg's Dream in this spare and resonant adaptation.

Caryl Churchill's singular and striking plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Light Shining in Buckinghampshire, Serious Money, The Skriker, Blue Heart, Far Away, and A Number.

August Strindberg (18491912) wrote over 60 plays, including Miss Julie, The Father, and The Dance of Death. He is considered Sweden's greatest author.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #570263 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781559362702
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Fantasy play in 14 scenes by August Strindberg, published in Swedish as Ett dromspel in 1902 and first produced in 1907. Presented as a dream, this fluid tableau of human foibles is a poignant lament that humans are to be pitied. As the play opens, the daughter of the Vedic god Indra arrives on Earth with the intention of determining if human complaints are justified. She encounters a host of tormented characters and herself is enmeshed in a wrenching marriage. Only the Poet, who has created the dream, seems unaffected by human suffering. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Language Notes
Text: English, Swedish (translation)

From the Publisher
This is a full cast production with sounds effects and original music produced at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre.

Duration of is approximately 2 hours.

Customer Reviews

Don't Buy
Absolutely terrible "modern" translation with entire passages omitted. My favorite play of all time; read it (if you can't be bothered to learn Swedish)in the translation (very good but not perfect)by Michael Meyer.

Strindberg's "A Dream Play"
One of the gods daughters came to earth to see how earth was. On earth one character is hunting for the love of his life, that has left him. Time passes with out memories. The play over all is a but confusing, the characters are different everythimg that they are mentioned. But in the long run the characters show you how lonely and depressed that they are.