Dream Play

by August Strindberg

Ingmar Bergman and M. Meyer (Translator)

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Following the logic of a dream, in which characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image, Strindberg's A Dream Play written in 1902 is an amazing amalgam of Freud, Alice's Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism. As Strindberg himself said, he wanted "to capture the inconsistent yet ostensibly logical structure of a dream. Everything can happen...Time and Place do not exist." Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant new version will premiere at the National Theatre in repertoire from mid-February 2005, coinciding with the big Strindberg exhibition at Tate Modern.
  • ISBN10 0436500027
  • ISBN13 9780436500022
  • Publish Date 21 May 1973
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 December 1992
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 96
  • Language English