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    A Dream Play (NHB Classic Plays)

    By August Strindberg

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    Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.

    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. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. As Strindberg 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.'

    From a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund. Introduction by Caryl Churchill.

    'elegant yet funereal and, like dreams, paradoxically serene and fraught'- Independent on Sunday

    '100 minutes of disconcerting theatrical brilliance... spellbinding'- Daily Telegraph

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateSep 25, 2014
    ISBN9781780014289
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    A Dream Play (NHB Classic Plays)
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    August Strindberg

    August Stringberg was a novelist, poet, playwright, and painter, and is considered to be the father of modern Swedish literature, publishing the country’s first modern novel, The Red Room, in 1879. Strindberg was prolific, penning more than 90 works—including plays, novels, and non-fiction—over the course of his career. However, he is best-known for his dramatic works, many of which have been met with international acclaim, including The Father, Miss Julie (Miss Julia), Creditors, and A Dream Play. Strindberg died in 1912 following a short illness, but his work continues to inspire later playwrights and authors including Tennessee Williams, Maxim Gorky, and Eugene O’Neill.

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