August Strindberg,Caryl Churchill
In Strindbergâ€™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 â€œto imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.â€,Caryl Churchillâ€™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 â€œfresh, new and magicalâ€ (,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 â€˜peopleâ€™s writer.â€™
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A Dream Play