A Dream Play - May 2007 By August Strindberg and newly adapted by Caryl Churchill
Photo by Sarah Fischer
In Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of August Strindberg's expressionistic "A Dream Play," a heavenly creature named Agnes comes down to earth to experience human suffering and report back to god, the gods, whatever. This fantastical dive into the subconscious is a tale of biblical proportions, a sort of "David Lynch does Joan of Arc in Wonderland."
As Strindberg said about the play, written in 1901, it imitates "the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is probable and possible. Time and space do not exist." Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant, and a mysterious locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image.
Through movement-based ensemble exploration of "the grotesque", using Meyerhold's Biomechanics, Ensemble actors bring Strindberg's darkly comic abstraction to strange and wonderful life.
Cast of A Dream Play: Precious Butiu, Andy Clawson, Kelley Faulkner, Annie Katica, Lindsey Newman, Amie St. Amour, Grin Geiss Trusz, Robert Walker, Owen Yen
Crew & Design Team: Andy Clawson, Kelley Faulkner, Sarah Fischer, Jason Gorgen, Chance, Kari Podgorski, Terry Podgorski, Emily Purington, Carter Rodriguez, Grin Geiss Trusz, Alexis Tabor, Sara Torres.
