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Begins to play on the piano, the Toccata Con Fuga, Op. 10, by Sebastian Bach. The waltz music from within is heard faintly at first. Then it grows in strength, as if to compete with the Bach Toccata. EDITH prevails over it and brings it to silence. Dancers appear in the doorway to hear her play.
In the last of them, "The Dream Play," Strindberg has worked out a form that is wholly new and wholly his own. As the play in question forms part of this volume, I shall not need to speak of it here in the manner it would otherwise deserve.
A Dream Play by August Strindberg is considered to be an important play in the Expressionism and Surrealism movements in theatre. This show provides a great opportunity to feature a large cast, or to have actors double up on many roles.
Strindberg’s aim was to write a play that imitated the form of a dream. The result, he suggested, is ‘a blend of memories, experiences, pure inventions, absurdities, and improvisations’, in which the ‘characters split, double, redouble, evaporate, condense, fragment, cohere’.
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A Dream Play (Swedish: Ett drömspel), sometimes staged in English as The Dream Play, is a fantasy play in 14 scenes written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was published in Swedish in 1902 [1] and first performed in Stockholm on 17 April 1907.
- August Strindberg, Caryl Churchill
- 1907
Sep 8, 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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