Dream Play Strindberg August
Dream Play Strindberg August Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door…
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Dream Play Strindberg August
Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream: A young woman comes from another world to see if life is really as difficult as people make it out to be.
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. As Strindberg wrote in his preface, he wanted 'to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Time and place do not exist.' From a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund.
Introduction by Caryl