A DREAM PLAY
August Strindberg
Adapted and directed by David Stein
June 9 through July 1, 2007

A young woman appears from another world to witness the difficulties of every day life on Earth. In Strindberg's A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters converge, 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." Anything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist. In this reimagined and updated variation, the beautiful Berkeley Art Center will serve as the backdrop to this surrealistic tale where nothing is what it seems as the audience follows the performers through site-specific locations throughout the center.

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