Dream Play

"A Dream Play" was perhaps the first play to employ a dream-like reality as a genre-in-itself. By doing this, Stindberg abandonded conventional perceptions of time and space. He reduced his original theme, of a man waiting vainly at the theatre for his fiancee who never comes, to a subplot; his chief character now was Indra's Daughter, the child of a god who is sent by her father to live among mortals. She meets and marries a poor man's lawyer, who spends his life vainly trying to right the wrongs of humanity; so she endures the agonies of human existence until, at last, she pulls off mortal flesh and returns to her father.This production was produced at the CBC Broadcasting Centre. It employes a full cast, sound effects, original music, and audience participation.Strindberg, August is the author of 'Dream Play' with ISBN 9780660185279 and ISBN 066018527X.