| A Dream Play Contributor(s): Strindberg, August (Author), Churchill, Caryl (Adapted by) |
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ISBN: 1559362707 ISBN-13: 9781559362702 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.1" W x 7.76" (0.20 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Strindberg's 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 "to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist." Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant new version was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in a production by Katie Mitchell, where A Dream Play was called "fresh, new and magical" (Telegraph). Caryl Churchill 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 and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a novelist and playwright from Stockholm, Sweden. His plays include Miss Julie, The Father, To Damascus, A Dream Play, and The Pelican. In 1912 Strindberg's birthday was marked by a torchlight procession through Stockholm, where his radical journalism had earned him the title of 'people's writer.' |